Heba Hayek

Heba Hayek is a Palestinian author, communication expert and facilitator. Rooted in decolonial, queer and indigenous practice, Heba’s writing navigates topics such as disposability, global south solidarity movements, land justice, and more. Additionally, they are a branding and communication consultant who is passionate about projects that centre the nourishment and cultivation of working class, immigrant, queer, and global majority folk. Heba completed an MFA in creative writing at Miami University, Ohio where they taught composition & rhetoric and creative writing for two years. They are currently based in London, the capital that’s being swept by a crisis after another, hoping to receive a travel document soon enough to escape to a hot blissful coast. Heba’s first book, Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, won the the 2022 Creative Palestine Book Awards and was chosen as a 2021 Book of the Year by The White Review, Middle East Eye and The New Arab.