# Hannah Pool > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hannah_Pool > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hannah_Pool.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Pool > Source revision: 1356140254 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British–Eritrean writer and journalist (born 1974)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} {{Use British English|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer | name = Hannah Pool | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Hannah Azieb Pool | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1974}} | birth_place = near [Keren](/source/Keren%2C_Eritrea), [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopian_Empire) | death_date = | occupation = Writer, journalist | language = | nationality = British-Eritrean | alma_mater = [Liverpool University](/source/Liverpool_University) | spouse = | children = }} '''Hannah Azieb Pool''' (born 1974) is a British–Eritrean writer and journalist. She was born near the town of [Keren](/source/Keren%2C_Eritrea) during the war for independence from [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia). She is a former staff writer for ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'' newspaper,Hannah Pool, [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hannahpool ''The Guardian'' profile page.] and writes for national and international media. She is a patron of the [SI Leeds Literary Prize](/source/SI_Leeds_Literary_Prize) for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.[http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/ Patrons], SI Leeds Literary Prize. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113195227/http://sileedsliteraryprize.wordpress.com/patrons/ |date=13 November 2014 }}. Since 2019, Pool has been artistic director/CEO at the [Bernie Grant Arts Centre](/source/Bernie_Grant_Arts_Centre) in [Tottenham](/source/Tottenham), [north London](/source/north_London).{{cite web|url=https://www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/hannah-azieb-pool-joins-bernie-grant-arts-centre-as-artistic-director/|title=Hannah Azieb Pool Joins The Bernie Grant Arts Centre As Artistic Director|website=Bernie Grant Arts Centre|access-date=17 October 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/welcome-back-to-the-bernie-grant-arts-centre/|title=Welcome back to the Bernie Grant Arts Centre|website=Bernie Grant Arts Centre|access-date=12 October 2024}} == Early life and education == At the age of six months, Pool was adopted by a British scholar working in [Sudan](/source/Sudan). At first she was raised in [Khartoum](/source/Khartoum) and then [Norway](/source/Norway), before finally settling in [Manchester](/source/Manchester), England. She grew up believing that her genetic parents had died shortly after her birth.Ojumu, Akin, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/14/biography.features1 "Ancestral voices"] (review of ''My Fathers' Daughter''), ''The Observer'', 14 August 2005. She was educated at [Liverpool University](/source/Liverpool_University), where she studied Sociology.[https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Fathers-Daughter-Hannah-Pool/dp/0241142601 Details of Pool's early life cited in her autobiography ''My Father's Daughter'' (2005).] == Career == After leaving university, Pool became a journalist on the ''[Manchester Evening News](/source/Manchester_Evening_News)''. She has written extensively for ''[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)'' newspaper, where for several years she wrote the fashion column "The New Black".{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2005/may/28/healthandwellbeing.beauty|title=The new black|first=Hannah|last=Pool|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 May 2005}} At the age of 19, she received a letter telling her that her genetic father and siblings were alive in Eritrea. Her memoir, ''My Fathers' Daughter: A story of family and belonging'', was published in 2005 and is an account of the journey she made back to Eritrea, aged 29, and her encounters with her family.[https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Fathers-Daughter-Hannah-Pool/dp/0241142601 ''My Fathers' Daughter''] at Amazon Books.{{better|reason=Amazon is not an independent source|date=April 2026}} Pool was a senior programmer of contemporary culture at the [Southbank Centre](/source/Southbank_Centre), London. In February 2019, she became the artistic director/CEO at the [Bernie Grant Arts Centre](/source/Bernie_Grant_Arts_Centre) in [Tottenham](/source/Tottenham). She is founder of the Tottenham Literature Festival, is a trustee of the [London International Festival of Theatre](/source/London_International_Festival_of_Theatre) (LIFT), serves on the Artist's Advisory Board of the [Manchester International Festival](/source/Manchester_International_Festival) and is also a patron of the [SI Leeds Literary Prize](/source/SI_Leeds_Literary_Prize) for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women in the UK.{{cite web|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/30291/hannah-azieb-pool?tab=penguin-biography|title=Hannah Azieb Pool {{!}} Biography|publisher=Penguin Nooks Limited|access-date=12 October 2024}} Pool is a contributor to the 2019 anthology ''[New Daughters of Africa](/source/Daughters_of_Africa)'', edited by [Margaret Busby](/source/Margaret_Busby).{{cite web|url=https://myriadeditions.com/authors/margaret-busby/new-daughters-at-bernie-grant-arts-centre/|title=New Daughters at Bernie Grant Arts Centre|publisher=Myriad|access-date=16 October 2022}} == Bibliography == * ''My Fathers' Daughter'', London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 2005. {{ISBN|0241142601}}. {{ISBN|978-0241142608}} * ''Fashion Cities Africa'' (editor), University of Chicago Press, 2016. {{ISBN|978-1783206117}}[http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5183/ "Fashion Cities Africa"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914220528/https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5183/ |date=14 September 2017 }} (review), Intellect. ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== * [http://www.hannahpool.com/ Official website.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622162037/http://www.hannahpool.com/ |date=22 June 2018 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120621134127/http://www.arisemagazine.net/articles/talking-teds/101453/ Talking TEDs, ''Arise'' magazine, video.] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pool, Hannah}} Category:1974 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of the University of Liverpool Category:Black British women writers Category:Black British writers Category:21st-century British women journalists Category:English people of Eritrean descent Category:Eritrean women journalists Category:Eritrean women writers Category:People from Keren, Eritrea Category:The Guardian people Category:British women memoirists Category:21st-century British journalists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hannah Pool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Pool) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Pool?action=history)). 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