Huda Hassan is an award-winning writer and cultural critic.

Huda’s writing appears in New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Globe & Mail, Fader, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, Hazlitt, and many other places. Her recent stories include a feature on grandparents fighting book bans in America (New York Magazine) and a profile of author and poet Dionne Brand (Chatelaine Magazine).

Huda writes a column for the CBC, Against the Grain, and a Substack newsletter, Mother, Loosen My Tongue. The New York Public Library’s Schomburg fellowship supports her writing and research. She is an assistant media and cultural studies professor at New York University, where she teaches literary and cultural criticism, cultural politics, the political economy of media, cultural history, and other topics.

She is represented by literary agent Ron Eckel (of Cooke McDermid).

Huda was born and raised in Toronto, has lived in Montreal, and currently resides in New York City.