Hi, I’m Hanan — a whimsical dreamer and lover of transcendental beauty.

I am a multidisciplinary artist, creative writer, community arts educator and, creative writing instructor living in Tkaronto/Toronto. I have a Master of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor and I completed a Lived Experience Transformational Leadership Fellowship at Yale University in 2024.

My writing has appeared in several publications including The Windsor Review, Feckless C*nts: An Anthology of Feminist Writing, and on CBC Arts. My poetry chapbook Aorta was published by ZED Press in 2018. I am one of the co-editors of the anthology Muslim American Writers at Home, and the anthology Up:Rising- A Collection of Rebellious Imaginings from Authors with Lived Experience of Mental Health & Addictions. My interdisciplinary and visual artwork has been featured in several shows including the Bursting Bubbles exhibition at the Rendezvous With Madness Festival, the digital series Talking Back And Together at the AGO, and the CoMotion Exhibit at the Harbourfront Centre.        

Through my intersectional and interdisciplinary artwork as a Lebanese-Canadian, Mad/Neurodivergent, and invisibly disabled woman, I hope to disrupt the status quo, deconstruct harmful binaries, and to smash the patriarchy while fighting societal injustices such as sanism, ableism, and xenophobia. I also wish to ward off “trauma clowning” and extractive tokenism by spreading magic, whimsy, and Mad/Disabled Joy to crip spoonies like myself.

My primary mission as an arts educator is to provide accessible arts education to marginalized communities with a special focus on crafting safe, empowered spaces for Mad, Neurodivergent, Disabled, Queer, and/or BIPOC folks to discover and enhance their writing and art skills.

When not writing or creating art, I enjoy reading poetry, romantasy, and speculative fiction, overanalyzing things, photo-blogging, dancing with faeries in the woods, swimming with mermaids, and drinking copious amounts of tea.