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Hannan Khan—a nefelibata, poet, fiction writer, editor, and scholar of literature & linguistics from Pakistan. He is the winner of the Native Voices Award 2025 for his poetry collection Isn’t Cooked Is Cursed, and a finalist for the Rhysling Award 2026. He is longlisted for the erbacce-prize for Poetry 2026. He sips coffee and reads Manto.

His work has appeared in IHRAM Literary Magazine, Fahmidan Journal, Evergreen Review, Eye To The Telescope, Twenty-two Twenty-eight, Abyss & Apex, Neon & Smoke, Winds Of Asia, 4LPH4NUM3R1C, Uncanny Magazine, Usawa Literary Review, Native Voices II: The Cry of Creation, Full Bleed, Ghudsavar, and Workers Write!, and is forthcoming in Gutter Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, and Cahava Literary Journal. Instagram: @hannan.khan.official


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the sleeping are so hard to distinguish / from the dead
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Nature, desecrated, refused to yield more than bone
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