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, a Creative NZ-funded online literary journal and co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of New Zealand climate change poetry published by Auckland University Press. His debut poetry collection Everyone is Everyone Except You was published by Dead Bird Books in May 2022 and debuted at #1 on the Unity Books Bestseller chart. He is currently studying an MFA at the University of Michigan on a Fulbright Scholarship.
