Hannah Gardiner is a writer from Kitchener, Ontario. She has a master’s degree in literary studies from the University of Waterloo, where she was thrice awarded the Beltz Essay Prize. Her writing has been published and is forthcoming in various Canadian literary magazines. She has received regional and national arts grants for her work. As a cultural organizer, Hannah has directed a range of independent and collaborative projects, which have been supported by public and private funders.

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I write dense essays, forms of life writing that think through film, literature, memory, obsessions, people, place, and visual art. My writing, whether critical or creative, tends to circle around the relationship between art, representation, and the self. I am currently working on my first book, a memoir-cum-cultural critique that puts twenty-first-century aesthetics of teen pregnancy in conversation with medieval Madonna del Parto paintings. This project is gratefully supported by Canada Council for the Arts and the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.