In Poetry We Say Journal

Whitney Hanson (born in rural Montana) is a poet and TikTok phenomenon who reached millions of readers by reciting her short, emotionally accessible poems on social media. She attended university in South Carolina. Her debut collection Climate (self-published, 2021) was assembled organically from poems she wrote and shared online during the pandemic. Her follow-up collection Home (Penguin, 2022), a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak with poems tracing the stages of grief and healing, became a bestseller reaching multiple countries. She has since published Harmony (2023) and The Love of My Life. She has over 1.6 million followers on TikTok and is known for her belief that poetry is a key to genuine vulnerability and human connection.