writer
poetNina Hanz is a Berlin based writer. Across poetry, nature writing, art writing, and (eco)feminist inquiry, her work explores gothic atmospheres and animate landscapes.
Originally from the North American South, she completed an MA in Writing at the Royal College of Art in 2020. Before that, she graduated cum laude with a BA in Humanities (Art Theory with Philosophy and Literature) from University College Maastricht in 2018. During her degree, she also spent an Erasmus semester in the English Department at the University of Exeter in Falmouth, Cornwall.
She has given performances and lectures at the National Poetry Library, London; Floating University, Berlin; Bauhaus University, Weimar and Assembly House, Norwich, among others. Her first poetry pamphlet, Placeholders, was published by Bottlecap Press in February 2022, and her second pamphlet, Mycoglossia, co-written with Fiona Glen, was published by Haverthorn Press in December 2022. From 2020 to 2022, she served as an editor at the Journal of Art Writing by Students (JAWS), published by Intellect Books in London. In 2019, she was an editorial intern at Grazia UK in London. Other editorial projects include: Hay cuerpos cansados por el viaje que buscan enraizarse, Bungalow, Berlin (2022); My Daughter Terra, Plaintiff Press, London (2023); Attention Anthology, Royal College of Art, London (2020) and NOIT — 5: BODIES AS IN BUILDING, Flat Time House/Royal College of Art, London (2019). Nina is currently the Director of Press and Communications at the ChertLüdde gallery in Berlin.




