Katharina Wenty (*1995) studied theatre, film, and media studies at the university of Vienna as well as Multimedia at the Höhere Graphische Bundeslehranstalt, where she specialized in film and photography. Her video projects have been part of many short film festivals, and won several awards, amongst others the Media Literacy Award, the Zeit:impuls Short Film Award etc. In 2018, she became the Poetry Slam State Champion for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland and was a finalist at the European Poetry Slam Championship in Budapest. She has been published in various international and national literary magazines and anthologies, and in 2022 her book “Hautflügelmieder” (Lektora Verlag) was released. As chairwoman of Poetry slam'md - Association for Stage Art, Literature and Youth Culture, she organizes and presents monthly poetry slams with an international focus. Furthermore, she is involved in the organization of not only annual European and World Poetry Slam Championships but also of the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival. With more than 500 performances in over ten countries on three continents, Katharina Wenty is one of the most successful Austrian slam poets.