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Harrison Hamm is a poet, film/TV writer, essayist and educator from rural Tennessee.

His debut poetry chapbook If It’s Country Music You Want was selected by C. Dale Young for the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, due for publication in 2026.

Nominated for Best New Poets, his writing is featured or forthcoming in POETRY, The Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Foglifter, DIAGRAM, Verse Daily, Hominum Journal, and more, including the recent anthologies Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series), Ecobloomspaces (Iron Oak Editions), and Delicate Machinery (Sundress Publications).

Also the author of award-winning screenplays, his film and TV writing has earned fellowships and honors from Diverso, New York Stage & Film, GLAAD, The Black List, Roadmap Writers and others.

Born and raised in West Tennessee to a family of Filipino-American immigrants and Southern Baptist country folk, he was educated at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where he earned dual BAs in Women’s & Gender Studies and Screenwriting.

In 2027, Harrison will graduate with an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University as a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow.