Queer, Southern, Autistic, mixed-race, devoutly irreligious, and otheriwse “monstrous,” Harrison Hamm is a film/TV writer, poet, and essayist whose work is driven by angsty comedy, anarchy, LGBTQ+ themes, and a touch of the surreal.

Born to a “bootstraps-American” farmer-businessman and the Filipina immigrant version of Dolly Parton, Harrison grew up a total outsider in rural Tennessee. Outed and excommunicated from his Southern Baptist church at 15-years-old, Harrison learned the hard way that language is a powerful resource for healing and surviving on the margins.

Selected as a screenwriting fellow in Diverso's The Minority Report 2022 and in 2023 New York Stage and Film Filmmakers Workshop, Harrison has received industry mentorship from creative executives, staff writers, and showrunners, such as Geetika Lizardi (Bridgerton), Ray Utarnichtt (Legends of Tomorrow), Alexandra Cunningham (Dirty John), Adam Higgs (Fubar) and Charles Rogers (Search Party).

Now LA-based and graduated from Loyola Marymount University with dual bachelors in Screenwriting and Gender & Sexuality Studies, Harrison has recently assisted at Big Swing Productions and Outfest LGBTQ+ Film Festival, published poetry in literary magazines/anthologies, and developed to-be-published scholarship at the intersection of queer theory, film/TV aesthetics, disability justice, and inclusive pedagogy.

Represented by Stephen Crawford at Industry Entertainment, Harrison focuses on bold, “genre-queer” scripts that center marginalized characters on offbeat paths to self-discovery — always committed to big juicy feelings and challenging power structures through humor, heart, and something left of center: arson, armadillos, Applebee’s, anything’s possible…