Harrison Hamm

Poet

Brooklyn, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Harrison Hamm is a poet, screenwriter, and essayist from Bolivar, Tennessee. His writing can be found published/forthcoming in Best New PoetsDIAGRAM, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon ReviewThe Poetry Reivew, TriQuarterlyVerse Daily and elsewhere. A Loyola Marymount University alum with dual BAs in Screenwriting and Women's & Gender Studies, Harrison will graduate with an MFA in Creative Writing at New York University as Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow in 2027. His debut chapbook If It's Country Music You Want won the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and will be published in 2026. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Delicate Machinery: Poems for Survival and Healing (Sundress Publications, 2025)
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Poetry Goes to the Movies (Beyond Baroque Books, 2025)
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Antler Velvet
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Beyond Queer Words
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Fatal Flaw
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Half Mystic
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Orange Blossom Review
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Poetry Magazine
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Poetry Review
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Rising Phoenix Review
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Screen Door Review
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Stone of Madness
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Susurrus
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Verse Daily
Prizes won: 

2025 Best New Poets, Finalist

2025 Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Finalist

2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected by C. Dale Young; 

2025 Snowbound Chapbook Award, Seminalist (Tupelo Press); 

2025 Djanikian & Veasna So Scholars, Semifinalist (The Adroit Journal); 

2024 GLAAD List x The Black List, Official Selection; 

2023 New York Stage and Film, Filmmakers' Workshop Fellowship and Residency

2022 Diverso Screenwriting Fellowship

2022 Roadmap Writers Diversity Iniative Winner

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American, Biracial, Filipino, Filipino American, LGBTQ, Queer, Southern
Raised in: 
Bolivar, TN
Tennessee
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Last update: Jan 06, 2026