Belgrade Art Studio is delighted to welcome Katy Hargett, a US writer residing in the UK.

She is an undergraduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, currently spending her second year at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. She studies English literature, creative writing, Chinese, and linguistics and is part of the University Honors Program at UAB.

In the summer of 2015, she was mentored by Lucia LoTempio at the Adroit Journal, and in 2017 she was selected for the Iowa Young Writers Studio and studied under Anna Morrison at the University of Iowa.
In 2018 she was named a National YoungArts Foundation Finalist in writing (poetry and nonfiction); was awarded first place in the Brittany Noakes Poetry Award; received a Presidential Summer Fellowship from the University of Alabama at Birmingham to write a series of lyric essays on mental and physical health and the unique experiences of women of color when seeking treatment; and won first place in oral presentation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Summer Research Expo my essays.