By: Hanan Hazime
The Colours of Culture 2025 Exhibition
about the poet
Hanan Hazime is a multidisciplinary artist, creative writer, community arts educator and, creative writing instructor living in Tkaronto/Toronto. She identifies as a Mad/Neurodivergent Lebanese-Canadian Shi’a-Muslimah feminist and Mad Pride activist.
Hanan has a Master of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor. Hanan’s writing has appeared in several publications including The Windsor Review, Feckless C*nts: An Anthology of Feminist Writing, and on CBC Arts. Her poetry chapbook Aorta was published by ZED Press in 2018. Hanan is one of the co-editors of the anthology Muslim American Writers at Home: Stories, Essays and Poems of Identity, Diversity and Belonging (Freedom Voices Publications, 2021).