Hatty Nestor is a researcher and writer. Her work explores representation, justice, art and ethics. Her writing appears in Frieze, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The White Review, and other publications. Both her poetry pamphlet The Aching Poem (Boise State Press), and Ethical Portraits (Zero Books) were published in 2021.
She has been writer-in-residence at the Jerwood Space in London (2017), critic-in-residence at Studio Das Weisse Haus in Vienna (2019), and at Cove Park, Scotland (2023), and BANFF, Canada (2026). Hatty regularly gives talks at writing conferences in the UK and abroad. She has received awards from The Royal College of Art, Jerwood Arts Space, The Society of Authors, The ICA and others. In 2023, she was an Arts and Humanities Research Council international visiting researcher at the Art of American Archives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and an associate fellow on the Wellcome Trust SHaME project.
Hatty will undertake a Self-Directed Residency at The Tin Church in September 2026. At The Tin Church, she will spend focused time completing the manuscript of her upcoming book about the afterlife of the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta, which will be published by Bloomsbury in 2027.
