about

Husnaa Haajarah Hashim is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and student herbalist. Her work engages themes of transnationalism, matrilineality, and Black feminist theory through mediums such as handwork, collage, and prose. She enjoys facilitating creative writing workshops and curating accessible public arts programming. A Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate (2017-2018), Husnaa is the author of the chapbook Honey Sequence (The Head & The Hand, 2018). She is a graduate of the Naropa Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Apiary, On Being, Rookie, Elixr Coffee’s Heart on Your Sleeve coffee cup sleeves, Short Édition’s Short Story Dispenser vending machine in Paris, France, and elsewhere.