Havva Yağcı was born in Rize in 1983. She is a graduate of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Fine Arts Faculty Traditional Turkish Arts Department. Yağcı received illumination training from Ali Kunduracı and Gürcan Mavili at the Traditional Turkish Arts Bookbinding Department, and took classes from Serap Bostancı Tuluk, Semih İrteş and Mamure Öz. She took plant painting classes from Orhan Dağlı for a year, and exhibited her illumination and bookbinding works in many exhibitions in Turkey.