Huda Hassan is an award-winning writer and cultural critic in New York City. Her writing appears in many places, including New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Globe & Mail, Fader, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, and Hazlitt. Her recent stories include a feature on grandparents fighting books bans in America and a profile of author and poet Dionne Brand. Huda writes a column for the CBC, Against the Grain, and a Substack newsletter, Mother, Loosen My Tongue. Her writing and research is supported by New York Public Library’s Schomburg fellowship. She is currently an assistant professor of media and cultural studies at New York University. She is represented by Ron Eckel (CookeMcDermid).