Hanna Bahedry is a writer and editor from Los Angeles.

She studied English with a concentration in creative writing and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at Wesleyan University, where she received the Horgan Prize for best short story.

She is the recipient of the 1st place prize for the Writer’s Digest’s 2025 Short Short Story Competition. She was also shortlisted for the Masters Review’s Winter Short Story Award for New Writers and was a finalist for the 60th New Millennium Writing Award for fiction. Her short stories and comics have been published by Writer’s Digest, the Maine Review, always crashing, AHOY Comics, and dear ____ zine.

Hanna currently works as a publicist for Superfan Promotions. She has previously worked as a proofreader, book editor, copywriter, scriptwriter, researcher, manuscript reader, ghostwriter, and bookseller. She currently lives in her hometown with her plastic swans, Buster and Lucille.