[3] Later he studied creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.

[5] He cofounded the New York City–based performance group Elevator Repair Service and worked with them 1992–2002.

[8] Hannaham is a professor in the writing program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

[10] Hannaham was born in The Bronx and grew up in Yonkers, New York, where his mother was an investigative journalist.

[11] His early experience was marked by the legal battle to end segregation in the Yonkers schools, which his mother covered for the radio.