Hasib Hourani

Hasib Houraniis a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on Wangal Country in Sydney. His work has been published in Meanjin, Overland, Australian Poetry and Cordite, among others. He is a 2020 recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter Scheme and his 2021 essay, ‘when we blink’ was shortlisted for The LIMINAL & Pantera Press Nonfiction prize and published in their 2022 anthology, Against Disappearance. His debut book rock flight won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Mary Gilmore Award in 2025, and was shortlisted for a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a NSW and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize, and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize.