Jennifer Hambrick
Living in Columbus, Ohio
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A seven-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Jennifer Hambrick is the author of a silence or two (Red Moon Press), winner of a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America and shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award from The Haiku Foundation; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada and shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award from The Haiku Foundation; In the High Weeds (National Federation of State Poetry Societies Press), winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press).
Hambrick is featured by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in American Life in Poetry, on Rattle poetry journal’s Rattlecast livestream, and elsewhere, and her work has been published in Rattle, The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Santa Clara Review, San Pedro River Review, Maryland Literary Review, The Main Street Rag, POEM, Chiron Review, Ekphrastic Review, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, The New Verse News, A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, vol. 13 (2023), Haiku 21.2, ed. Lee Gurga and Scott Metz (Modern Haiku Press, 2025); Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Contemporary Haibun Online, The Haibun Journal, Kingfisher, The Mainichi, The Asahi Shimbun, Daily Haiga, multiple editions of Haiku 20XX anthologies (Modern Haiku Press); multiple editions of The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, ed. Jim Kacian; and in dozens of other literary journals and invited anthologies for haimai and "mainstream" poetry. Hambrick’s critical essays on haiku and haibun are published in Juxtapositions, the journal of haiku research and scholarship published by The Haiku Foundation, and in Contemporary Haibun Online.
Hambrick has received numerous awards for her free verse poetry, Japanese short-form poetry, and haiga, including the Sheila-Na-Gig Press Poetry Prize (2020); seven Pushcart Prize nominations (2024, 2022 [x2], 2021 [x2], 2020, 2014); a Best of the Net nomination (2021); appointment as the inaugural first Artist-in-Residence at historic Bryn Du Mansion, Granville, Ohio, (2019); four First Place honors, a Special Award for Forensic Metalinguistics, and several Honorable Mentions, inaugural Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards, 2024; First Place, Martin Lucas Haiku Award Competition (2021); First Place, Haiku Society of America Haibun Award Competition (2018); Third Place, Irish Haiku Society Haiku Competition (2021); Bronze Prize, Ito En Art of Haiku Grand-Prix (2021); Honorable Mention, Haiku Society of America Haibun Award Competition (2020); Honorable Mention, Genjuan International Haibun Competition (2020); Highly Commended, H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (2021); Honorable Mention, Betty Drevniok Haiku Award Contest (2022); Honorable Mention, H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contest (2018); and many others.
whale fall
my ocean’s quiet
deaths
First Place, Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards (2024); first published in Heliosparrow Poetry Journal (26 May 2023).
frost field
a quiet walk through
the Milky Way
First Place, Martin Lucas Haiku Award Competition (2021); first published in Presence #72 (March 2022).
starry night
acorns popping
underfoot
Featured with commentary by Ted Kooser in American Life in Poetry (Dec. 2020); first published in Modern Haiku 51.2 (Summer 2020).
not as long
as it used to be
summer day
Shortlisted for the Touchstone Award for Individual Poems (2021); first published in Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2021.
a womb
for this world
morning mist
A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, vol. 13, ed. Jim Kacian & Julie Schwerin (Red Moon Press, 2023).
a light on
in the back of the house
pooling rain
Winner, Favorite Haiku of Issue, Modern Haiku 53.3 (Autumn 2022)
sunset
over the stubble field
he leans in for a kiss
Bronze Prize, Ito En Art of Haiku Grand-Prix (2021)
a moon with its own mouthfeel mother tongue
Honorable Mention, Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards 2024; first published in Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 18 March 2023.
ossuary dawn
a blood sky turns
to dust
Special Award for Forensic Metalinguistics, Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards 2024;
first published in Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 28 Feb. 2024.
in too deep to turn back starlight
Acorn 51 (Fall 2023).
duskfire
come, feel the flicker
of these wings
Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant 2024, ed. Chris Gordon.
the curve of his hand where midnight used to be
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 15 Oct. 2022.
foxfire where he touches me
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 26 May 2023.
bone moon
the wandering stillness
of his winter
White Enso (May 2024).
whiskey smoke
the last few sips
of nightfall
Acorn 50 (Spring 2023).
ice flowers . . .
still reaching
for each other
Frogpond 47.1 (Winter 2024).
autumn planting children in the past tense
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal (May 2022)
deep in your eye am so yes
Honorable Mention, Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards 2024;
first published in Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 30 Aug. 2023.
broken stars
deep in the sonogram
a silence or two
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 2 Dec. 2022.
skinbraille
the language we speak
with our hands
Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant 2024, ed. Chris Gordon.
unnumbered highway
the square root
of gone
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal 7 Sept. 2024.
bitter cold
that part of me
howling at the moon
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 18 March 2023.
me watching him watching me mannequin
Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant 2024, ed. Chris Gordon.
open crocus
the familiar shape
of this loss
Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2022.
corn tassels
the first whispers
between us
Mayfly 74 (Winter 2023);
upside down: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2023 (Red Moon Press, 2023).
two letters dark
in the neon sign
wandering stars . . .
Frogpond 48.1 (Winter 2025).
what stays forgotten moonrise
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal 8 Feb. 2025.
ancient rain
when we used to be
a sky
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 28 Dec. 2022.
airless night
when I was still
an ovum
Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, 7 April 2023.
Sunday morning snow
smudged black
Saturday night mascara
Modern Haiku, Vol. 46.2, Summer 2015
wet leaves –
memory of “Wildwood Flower”
on dad’s harmonica
Hedgerow #84, July 2016
evening bird –
for once
we’re both listening
World Haiku Review, June 2016. Third Place in the Vanguard Haiku category.
frost on the window
your lingering
silence
World Haiku Review June 2016. Haiku of Merit in the Neo-Classical category
red dawn clings
to lavender – your silhouette
in the storm
Delirious: A Poetic Celebration of Prince, NightBallet Press 2016