Hey there,

I’m Hannah:

Aries Sun. Gemini Moon. Aquarius Rising.

Writer, host of Women, Writing, Weed & Wine, founder of Honey & Knife Books, and lover of life. I believe that healing = justice, pleasure is sacred, and that radical self-expression changes the world.

Let’s follow our bliss—our peace, our power, and our pleasure—and rewrite our stories, one word, one day at a time.

Love,

The Long

HANNAH OLABOSIBE SHOKOYA EKO is a Nigerian-American eldest daughter who never became a lawyer, doctor, or engineer. Like a true rebel, she attended five years of military school and graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy, during which she completed a thesis on Black ethnomusicology (“I Too Sing America”). After serving as a US Coast Guard officer, she embarked on her longtime (read repressed) writer dreams. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Fiction from the University of Pittsburgh.

She is the author of Honey Is the Knife, a hybrid self-help memoir steeped in the Sacred Black feminine, humor, and a lot of nerdiness. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Buzzfeed, Bust, b*tch, Pigeon Pages NYC, the Dear Black Girl anthology, Fractured Lit, and Aster(ix) magazines. She is a 2026 Kimbilio Fellow, a member of the 2026 WGA Veterans Project, 2021 California Arts Council Emerging Fellow, a 2019 recipient of the Advancing Black Arts Grant, a Peter R. Taylor Kenyon Fellow, Tin House Scholar, and VONA (Voices Of Our Nations) alum. She has taught writing workshops at Catapult, Smith College, Bloomsburg University, Pomona College, Girls Write Now, Ripped Bodice, Accent Society, and at White Whale, an independent bookstore based in Pittsburgh.

She is founder of The Lit Club, a cannabis book club, co-founder of the Los Angeles based reading series Palindrome alongside Tanya Shirazi-Galvez, and founder of Honey & Knife Books, a boutique literary atelier.

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