Hannah Bae is a Korean American freelance journalist, nonfiction writer, and illustrator who is at work on a memoir. She was a 2024 grantee in literature for the New York State Council on the Arts, a 2024 juror in nonfiction for the Kirkus Prize, and a 2021 and 2022 Peter Taylor Fellow for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. She is a proud alumnus of AAWW’s Open City fellowship.