Hanan Issa is a Welsh-Iraqi writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her publications include her poetry collection My Body Can House Two Hearts (Burning Eye Books, 2019), Welsh Plural: Essays on the Future of Wales (Repeater Books, 2022) and her children’s poetry anthology And I Hear Dragons (Firefly Press, 2024). Her winning monologue With Her Back Straight was performed at the Bush Theatre as part of the Hijabi Monologues. She is part of the writers room for Channel 4’s award-winning series We Are Lady Parts. Her work has been featured on Radio 3 and Radio 4. Her short film The Golden Apple, a Ffilm Cymru/ BBC Wales commission, is available on iPlayer. She was the 2023 Hay International Fellow and is the current National Poet of Wales until 2027.