Hassan A. J. is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association. He is a writer, editor, and educator. He received his MFA in Writing & Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts where he was an assistant fiction editor for Hunger Mountain Magazine. He was a Creative Writing instructor at Writopia Lab, and a coordinator and judge for the Scholastic Writing Awards. He attended the Yale Writers' Workshop and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in Montage, Words for Charity, and Tale Time Podcast. He is a winner of the 2019 Wilder Fiction Prize, and the recipient of a 2021 Mari Sandoz Emerging Writers Fellowship. His poetry collection Home After the Maple is out soon.