Hanan is a Welsh-Iraqi poet, filmmaker, and artist. Her publications include her poetry collection My Body Can House Two Hearts and Welsh Plural: Essays on the Future of Wales. Her winning monologue With Her Back Straight was performed at the Bush Theatre as part of the Hijabi Monologues.

She is part of the writersroom for Channel 4’s award-winning series We Are Lady Parts. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. She has written and directed her own short film The Golden Apple - a Ffilm Cymru/ BBC Wales commission. She was the 2023 Hay International Fellow and is the current National Poet of Wales