Huda Hassan is a writer and cultural critic in New York City.

Her award-winning writing appears everywhere, including in New York Magazine, Pitchfork, The Globe & Mail, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, and Hazlitt. She writes a column for the CBC's Against the Grain and a monthly newsletter, Mother, Loosen My Tongue. As a critic, Huda appears on CBC’s Commotion, Metro Morning, and The Current, alongside CTV’s Culture Shock and Pop Life shows. She has been a juror for the National Magazine Awards, Polaris Music Prize, and the SOCAN Songwriting Awards.

Huda teaches media and cultural studies at New York University and received the 2025-2026 New York Public Library’s Schomburg fellowship for her writing.

Huda is writing a book of essays on cities and grief (McClelland & Stewart, 2027). She is represented by Ron Eckel (Cooke McDermid).

Huda was raised in Toronto’s east end, has lived in Montreal, and now lives in Brooklyn.