Blake Edward Hamilton

Poet, Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Blake Edward Hamilton earned his MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. His work has appeared in World Literature Today Magazine: Windmill, NPR, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, The Guerrilla Lit Mag., and South Broadway Press, among others. His first full-length collection of poetry, All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan / Luchador Press) was released in 2020. His second collection of poetry, Move In Silence (Spartan / Luchador Press), was released in the Spring of 2021. His novel, HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil Press), was published in November 2021, and his collection of short fiction, Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil Press), is forthcoming in Spring 2023.

Education: 
Naropa University, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics MFA

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Consummation (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
,
HIRAETH (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

Poetry

Books:
Move In Silence (Spartan Press, 2021)
,
All Through Your Multiple Selves (Spartan Press, 2019)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Michael Cunningham, Margaret Atwood, Tom Spanbauer, Clive Barker, Don DeLillo, Jose Saramago, Cormac McCarthy, John Updike, Clarice Lispector, Virginia Woolf, Bram Stoker, Franz Kafka, Alvaro Enrigue, Paul Auster, Daniel Woodrell, J.G. Ballard, Andre Aciman, Andrew Sean Greer, Peter Benchley, Hernan Diaz, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen King, Augusten Burroughs, Donna Tartt, Charles Bukowski, Michael Punke
What I'm reading now: 
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, LGBTQ, Schools, Teachers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma
Raised in: 
Oklahoma City, OK
Oklahoma
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Last update: Mar 19, 2023