Hauwa Saleh Abubakar is a writer, poet and tea maker. Her works have appeared in The Weight of Years: An Afroanthology of Creative Nonfiction, Ake Review, Agbowo Magazine, Lolwe and more. She is also the author of How to Practise Forgetting, a poetry collection that explores the world through the body on Okada Books. Hauwa is currently a journalist with HumAngle Media.

She considers herself an accidental lawyer and aims to make people feel “something” with her works.