Natalie Hanna is a queer, disabled, Ottawa-born lawyer of Middle-Eastern descent who works with low-income and vulnerable populations. She is the author of the poetry collection lisan al’asfour (ARP, 2022) and thirteen chapbooks, including dark ecologies (2017) and CONCEALED WEAPONS/ANIMAL SURVIVORS (above/ground press, 2018),  infinite redress (Baseline Press, 2020) and machine dreams with Liam Burke (Collusion, 2021), the last of which was nominated for the 2022 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her poem “light conversation” received Honourable Mention in Arc Poetry Magazine's 2019 Diana Brebner Prize. She runs battleaxe press, a feminist-focused small poetry press.