Hannah Silva is a writer and performer working in sound poetry, radio, and experimental non-fiction. Her record 'Talk in a bit' was included in the Wire's Top 25 Albums of 2018. She has written eight plays for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and won the Tinniswood Award for best script and numerous placements in the BBC Audio Drama Awards. Her debut poetry collection Forms of Protest was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. She has an MFA in Theatre Practice, a PhD on the analysis of poetry in performance from Stirling University and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at Queen Mary University, London. Her play for BBC Radio 4 'An Artificially Intelligent Guide to Love' starred Fiona Shaw and was the starting point for My Child, the Algorithm. She lives in London with her toddler.
My Child, the Algorithm redoes what autobiography is. Funny, inventive and moving, it raises the stakes for the rest of us writers -- Isabel Waidner Hannah breaks all the rules in order to refresh our minds. No writer I know in drama is as brave or as vulnerable. She talks to another hinterland of the mind. She writes like she is climbing a mountain naked.... an important new talent -- Fiona Shaw A brilliant, surprising, funny, moving, unexpected, unique work of genius -- Nadia Molinari * BBC Radio 4 * I loved it... thoughtful, funny, inspiring, revelatory and - above all - honest and open -- Jeremy Mortimer * BBC Radio 4 *