Jordan Hamel is a Michigan-based writer, poet and performer from Aotearoa. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam champion and represented NZ at the World Poetry Slam Champs in 2019. He is the co-editor of Stasis Journal and co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of Aotearoa climate change poetry published by Auckland University Press. His debut poetry collection Everyone is Everyone Except You was recently published by Dead Bird Books. He is currently studying an MFA at the University of Michigan on a Fulbright Scholarship.

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VERB Festival 2022 appearances:
Kreutzer Sonata, Sun 6 Nov, 4pm.