Esra Tekin was born in 1974 in Trabzon. She is a graduate of Istanbul University Faculty of Economics. She started her khatt training with Ayten Tiryaki in 2010 and for six years she studied thuluth - naskh. She has been studying thuluth, naskh, and diwani with Fatih Özkafa since 2016. Tekin, who participated in two group exhibitions, was selected for Çamlıca Mosque Mushaf Project in 2016 and wrote sixteen pages from Surah At-Tawbah with naskh khatt.