Hannah Kent is a writer and editor. She co-founded Australian literary journal Kill Your Darlings in 2010 and has served as deputy editor for the publication. She has also worked as an editorial assistant at Australian Book Review. Her creative and critical writing has appeared in The Big Issue, Australian Book Review, Transnational Literature, Kill Your Darlings, Readings Monthly and Voiceworks. In 2011, she was a judge of Melbourne University/The Australian Centre's Peter Blazey Fellowship for Life Writing. She has worked towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University, and has lived in Adelaide and Melbourne.
Kent won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2011 for her manuscript Burial Rites, which was published by Pan Macmillan in 2013.