Hannah Jane Walker

Hannah Jane Walker is a poet, broadcaster and playwright from Essex. Her work is concerned with the difficult and uplifting moments we face in the process of being a person. She is currently an artist in residence at Cambridge Biomedical Campus and Cambridge Junction.

With playwright Chris Thorpe she has written, performed and toured around the world the shows The Oh Fuck Moment and I Wish I Was Lonely. As a performance poet, she has gigged in theatres, bars, boats, festivals. As a creative writing workshop leader, she has worked in favelas in Rio, at national venues and with children in psychiatric care. She has written and produced shows for BBC Radio 4 and has a theatre poetry podcast, Human Resources.

She has written for the Guardian and the BBC, and her poetry has been published by Nasty Little Press and Nine Arches Press, Forest Fringe and Penned in the Margins.

She won a Fringe First Award in 2011 and was Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing 2018-2019.

Her first book, SENSITIVE, will be published by Octopus.