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Haneen Oriqat is a Muslim Palestinian-American writer, editor, photographer, and activist. As a child of diaspora, her love for travel, the moon, and the ocean are infused into her stories in search of home for teens and adults. Along with her writing aspirations, she is dedicated to fostering a career in the publishing industry with the commitment of supporting diverse voices by increasing the visibility of writers of color who have been marginalized. Haneen is currently the Operations Coordinator for Electric Postcard Entertainment and Cake Creative Kitchen, an IP story development entertainment company dedicated to bold and diverse storytelling across publishing, books, audio, podcasts, and film/TV for all ages. She has worked at the agency level and held various positions in education and the arts, including being hired as a consultant to write and edit a comic book project for The AjA Project.

Haneen received her MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Fiction and Writing for Young People from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is an alumna of the University of California, San Diego, where she received a BA in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations and a minor in Literature/Writing while taking extensive courses in Photography. She authored the graphic novel How Did We Get Here? City Heights and her work has been featured in a variety of publications. Her work has been featured in The Manifest-Station, Everyday Feminism, Angels Flight ∙ literary west, This is Worldtown, and BuzzFeed Books. She was also selected as a finalist for Voyage YA Journal’s First Chapters Contest for Women Writers. Haneen is a fellow of Highlights Foundation’s first Muslim Storytellers Fellowship and VONA/Voices for writers of color.

Haneen was born and raised on Kumeyaay land now known as San Diego, California and currently resides in NYC. Despite her sarcasm and unhealthy amount of coffee often getting her in trouble, she is always working on a few manuscripts. You can find her at haneenoriqat.com or on social media @haneenoriqat.

Haneen Oriqat is a Muslim Palestinian-American writer, photographer, and activist with an MFA in creative writing and BA in political science – international relations. As a child of diaspora, her love for travel, the moon, and the ocean are infused into her stories in search of home for teens and adults. She authored the graphic novel How Did We Get Here? City Heights and her work has been featured in a variety of publications. Haneen is a fellow of Highlights Foundation’s first Muslim Storytellers Fellowship. She currently works in the literary publishing industry as the Operations Coordinator for Electric Postcard Entertainment and Cake Creative Kitchen, an IP story development entertainment company dedicated to bold and diverse storytelling. Haneen was born and raised on Kumeyaay land now known as San Diego, California and currently resides in NYC. You can find her at haneenoriqat.com or on social media @haneenoriqat.