about christine e. hamm .&. publications
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Christine E. Hamm, queer English Professor, social worker and student of Ecopoetics, has a PhD in English, and lives in New Jersey. She recently won the Tenth Gate prize from Word Works for her manuscript, Gorilla.
Her work has been featured in North American Review, Nat Brut, Painted Bride Quarterly and many others. She has published six chapbooks, and several books -- including Saints & Cannibals, about which Cynthia Cruz said, "Joyfully acrobatic is her language and the wonderful jumps she makes. Hers is a voice we have been waiting for."
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For decades, Dr. Hamm has taught college English (literature, poetry and composition) to different types of learners (including developmental, at-risk, second language, international and heritage). She specializes in freshmen and advanced composition, and, most recently, taught English for post-high school, pre-college, and at-risk freshmen.
In all her classes, she focuses on rhetorical modes and diverse methods of writing about experience while using texts from POC and queer traditions. She is versatile in teaching remotely, using the platforms of Zoom, Blackboard, Teams and Outlook.
PUBLICATIONS
Books: (available on Amazon and SPD)
Gorilla, WordWorks, 2021 (purchase here)
Girl into Fox, Kelsay Books, 2019
Echo Park, Fall 2011 from Blazevox
Saints & Cannibals, Spring 2010 from Plainview Press
The Transparent Dinner, Fall 2006 from Mayapple Press
Chapbooks: Notes on Wolves and Ruin, Ghostbird Press, 2017
A is for Afterimage, 2014, New Orleans Review
My Western, 2012, Erbacce Press
Children Having Trouble with Meat, Fall 2007, MiPo Press
The Animal Husband, April 2006, Dancing Girl Press
The Salt Daughter, December 2005, Little Poem Press
EDUCATION
MFA in Poetry, Columbia University, in Progress
PhD in English, Drew University
MSW in Social Work, New York University
MA in Fiction, SUNY-Binghamton
BA in English, Reed College
SELECTED AWARDS
Tenth Gate Prize, Word Works Books, 2019
Finalist, Arts & Letters Unclassifiables Contest, 2020
Writing Program Scholarship, Columbia University, 2016-2017
Finalist, Slate Roof Press Annual Chapbook Contest, 2017
Pushcart Prize Nomination, New Orleans Review, 2014
Finalist, Kore Press, 2014
Finalist, Kore Press, 2013
George L. Shinn Scholarship, Drew University, 2012-2013
Caspersen Scholarship, Drew University, 2006-2012
Finalist, WordWorks Poetry Prize, 2012
Full Teaching Scholarship, SUNY-Binghamton, 1987-1989
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About GORILLA
This surreal book of prose poems, echoing both Anne Sexton and Russell Edson, was the winner of the Tenth Gate Prize at Word Works Books.
Jenny Xie, Winner of the Walt Whitman Prize, said this about the manuscript: "Christine Hamm’s Gorilla is a potent, and wholly original, collection that traces—with the indelible strokes of dream logic—the contours of domestic dramas and estranging losses, along with the menaces of masculinity.In these charged pages, we encounter animals in states of power and peril—including eponymous Gorilla, whose actions corrode and haunt, throughout the book—along with flying babies and oddball creatures, all set arrestingly in absurdist tableaus. The emotional complexity limned by Hamm is something to marvel at. These distilled poems are strange and dark enclosures that have “a mind of [their] own," inviting us to be captive to their collective spell and astounding power."
Christine E. Hamm, queer English Professor, social worker and student of Ecopoetics, has a PhD in English, and lives in New Jersey. She recently won the Tenth Gate prize from Word Works for her manuscript, Gorilla.
& & & & &
For decades, Dr. Hamm has taught college English (literature, poetry and composition) to different types of learners (including developmental, at-risk, second language, international and heritage). She specializes in freshmen and advanced composition, and, most recently, taught English for post-high school, pre-college, and at-risk freshmen.
PUBLICATIONS
Gorilla, WordWorks, 2021 (purchase here)
Girl into Fox, Kelsay Books, 2019
Saints & Cannibals, Spring 2010 from Plainview Press
The Transparent Dinner, Fall 2006 from Mayapple Press
Chapbooks: Notes on Wolves and Ruin, Ghostbird Press, 2017
My Western, 2012, Erbacce Press
Children Having Trouble with Meat, Fall 2007, MiPo Press
The Animal Husband, April 2006, Dancing Girl Press
The Salt Daughter, December 2005, Little Poem Press
EDUCATION
MFA in Poetry, Columbia University, in Progress
PhD in English, Drew University
MSW in Social Work, New York University
MA in Fiction, SUNY-Binghamton
BA in English, Reed College
SELECTED AWARDS
Tenth Gate Prize, Word Works Books, 2019
Finalist, Arts & Letters Unclassifiables Contest, 2020
Writing Program Scholarship, Columbia University, 2016-2017
Finalist, Slate Roof Press Annual Chapbook Contest, 2017
Pushcart Prize Nomination, New Orleans Review, 2014
Finalist, Kore Press, 2014
Finalist, Kore Press, 2013
George L. Shinn Scholarship, Drew University, 2012-2013
Caspersen Scholarship, Drew University, 2006-2012
Finalist, WordWorks Poetry Prize, 2012
Full Teaching Scholarship, SUNY-Binghamton, 1987-1989
& & & & &
About GORILLA
This surreal book of prose poems, echoing both Anne Sexton and Russell Edson, was the winner of the Tenth Gate Prize at Word Works Books.
Jenny Xie, Winner of the Walt Whitman Prize, said this about the manuscript: "Christine Hamm’s Gorilla is a potent, and wholly original, collection that traces—with the indelible strokes of dream logic—the contours of domestic dramas and estranging losses, along with the menaces of masculinity.In these charged pages, we encounter animals in states of power and peril—including eponymous Gorilla, whose actions corrode and haunt, throughout the book—along with flying babies and oddball creatures, all set arrestingly in absurdist tableaus. The emotional complexity limned by Hamm is something to marvel at. These distilled poems are strange and dark enclosures that have “a mind of [their] own," inviting us to be captive to their collective spell and astounding power."
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