biography
Hasib Hourani is a Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, arts worker and educator living on unceded Gadigal Country. His debut book, rock flight was released with Giramondo (AU) and Prototype (UK) in 2024, and with New Directions (US) in 2025. rock flight won the Mary Gilmore Award and the NSWLA Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. It was shortlisted for the Prime Ministerβs Literary Award for Poetry, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. rock flight is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and the Forward Prize for Poetry.
Hasib is poetry editor of Loom and is currently working on his second book, funded by Creative Australia.