Jordan Hamel

Jordan Hamel is an Aotearoa (the Māori name for the land also known as New Zealand) writer and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam champion and competed at the Individual Poetry Slam Championships in California in 2019. His debut poetry collection, Everyone Is Everyone Except You (Dead Bird Books, 2022), was named one of the best books of 2022 by Newsroom. 

Hamel is a coeditor of No Other Place to Stand (Auckland University Press, 2022), an anthology of New Zealand climate change poetry. He is also a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times, where he writes about meat pies, salmon fishing, small town airports, and other benign things. 

Hamel is an MFA candidate in the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program on a Fulbright scholarship. Recent work can be found in Poetry, Gulf Coast, Sonora Review, and Best New Zealand Poems of 2022.