Katy Scarlett is an educator, poet, and essayist from New Jersey. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MA in art history from Hunter College, CUNY. She has received support from Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and has attended Tin House Writer's Workshop, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and a Vermont Studio Center Residency. She was a Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in 2024 and the Larry Levis Poetry Prize Fellow from 2022-2023.

Katy’s essay “Under the Pink” was runner-up for Hunger Mountain Review’s 2023 Creative Nonfiction Prize. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Michigan Quarterly Review Online, Redivider, Sonora Review, CRAFT, and elsewhere. She is currently writing a memoir-in-essays about work and dating, performance and time.