Born in Hastings County, Hannah Brown currently lives in the Beach in Toronto. She has two degrees in film from York University and has won awards for screenwriting, including one from the NFB for How to Call Cows. After a happy sojourn teaching film and English at the college and collegiate levels, she returned recently to writing full time, with work featured in several North American literary magazines, including Superstition Review, Harpoon Review, Lynn Crosbie's Hood, White Wall Review,Untethered Magazine, The Toronto Review of Books, and Many Gendered Mothers. "The Happiness" was (parenthetical) magazine's entry for the 2016 Journey Prize. Her debut novel, Look After Her  had its launch on October 3, 2019.