Jennifer Hambrick

Living in Columbus, Ohio
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Bio:
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.