Mine Söğüt was born in Istanbul in 1968. She graduated from Kadıköy Girls' High School in 1985 and entered Istanbul University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Latin Language and Literature in the same year. She completed her bachelor's degree in 1989 and continued her master's degree in the same department. She started her career as a journalist at Güneş newspaper in 1990. Later she worked for Tempo magazine and Yeni Yüzyıl newspaper. She worked as a copywriter for the television documentary Haberci. Her articles and interviews were published in various magazines and newspapers. Between 2013 and 2021, she worked as a columnist at Cumhuriyet Newspaper.