Jana Elkhatib

Jana Elkhatib is an artist and writer. Her work across performance, sound, fiction and research-based interdisciplinary practice has been supported by the Banff Centre, Hamilton Artists Inc, La Corvée Paris, La Centrale Galerie Montreal, 7a*11d Festival Toronto and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others. Elkhatib holds an MFA in fiction from Brown, where she was awarded the Feldman Prize (2023) and Frances Mason Harris Prize (2024), the latter for a book-length manuscript for which she will soon be pursuing publication. Her practice has been featured in Canadian Art magazine, and her fiction published in Brick magazine. She has taught fiction writing and performance art workshops and courses at the University of Toronto and at Brown, and currently teaches in THAD at RISD.