Hanna is a fiction writer and PhD researcher at the University of Sussex. She holds an MA in Japanese Studies from SOAS, trained as a costume maker at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked as a professional costume maker in the UK and New Zealand for many years. Her agent is Elise Dillsworth at The Elise Dillsworth Agency.

Her PhD research uses walking, psychogeography and storytelling to explore neuroqueer experiences of urban space to ask how neurotypical space might be adapted to better suit neuroqueer and neurodivergent needs.