Huda Hassan is a writer and cultural critic in New York City.

Her award-winning writing appears everywhere, including in New York Magazine, Pitchfork, The Globe & Mail, Cosmopolitan, BuzzFeed, and Hazlitt. She writes a column for the CBC's Against the Grain and a monthly newsletter, Mother, Loosen My Tongue. As a critic, Huda appears on CBC’s Commotion, Metro Morning, and The Current, alongside CTV’s Culture Shock and Pop Life shows. She has been a juror for the National Magazine Awards, Polaris Music Prize, and the SOCAN Songwriting Awards. In 2019, she was one of 100 Black women artists and arts workers who participated in The Feast, a performative dining table at the Art Gallery of Ontario, as a communal action against erasure in Canadian arts establishments.

Huda teaches media and cultural studies at New York University and received the 2025-2026 New York Public Library’s Schomburg fellowship for her writing.

Huda is writing a book of essays on cities, countercultures, and grief (McClelland & Stewart). She is represented by Ron Eckel (Cooke McDermid).

Huda was raised in Toronto’s east end, has lived in Montreal, and now lives in Brooklyn.