Meet Hannah

Hannah Papp has truly lived by the premise that life is research for your novel. Seeking her own moveable feast, she embraced enterprise and experience from an early age.  As a teen, she tried her hand at proofing pastries in a bakery, pumping gas, waiting tables and even drove a backhoe on a construction site.  Never far from prose, in her twenties she worked for her university’s English Department and as Advertising Manager for an English language publication in Europe.

Her first published work was a satirical cartoon penned as a teen and printed in the local paper. Winner of the prestigious Carlton Arts Review Poetry contest, her poem entitled ‘Billy Dean and Me’ followed in their 1998 A New Instinct edition. While living abroad for several years during her mid-twenties, Hannah traveled extensively and documented her experiences in an endless stream of journals, on paper napkins and filling hard drives. These notes became the foundation stones for The Mystical Backpacker, released in the spring of 2015 and published by Beyond Words, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

With a Master’s in History earned at an American accredited university in Hungary and an undergraduate degree in English Literature and History, her next step was truly unpredictable. Hannah began a video production company in Washington D.C. Currently celebrating more than a decade of accolades, industry awards and recognition as a top production company in the nation’s capital, Hannah’s efforts landed her on Crave’s The Top 100 Women You Need to Know in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area list in 2010.

Hannah Papp currently heads up the Northern Virginia Mind, Body & Spirit Group teaching seminars and leading guided meditations under the Inspired! Intuition series of events.  She also works regularly with clients as a personal Soul Coach and continues to blog, write and journey, both as a traveler and as a mystical backpacker.  To learn more about working with Hannah, please visit Work With Hannah.