Hannah S. Palmer is a writer and artist from the Southside of Atlanta. Through essays, memoir, and public art projects, she explores how hidden histories and wildness shape our lives in the urban landscape. Her memoir Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport (2017) was included on Atlanta Magazine’s list of “essential books that explain today’s Atlanta.” Palmer’s new book, The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim was published by LSU Press in October 2024.

Talking about the Flint River in broken French by Les Aygalades in Marseille, 2023. Photo from Bureau des Guides.

At Zora Neale Hurston’s last house in Fort Pierce, Florida, 2021. Photo by Jason Palmer.

At Zora Neale Hurston’s last house in Fort Pierce, Florida, 2021. Photo by Jason Palmer.