HCE Welcomes New Books Editor

Please help me in welcoming Christine Hamm as our new Books Editor.

Christine is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Drew University. She worked as a social worker for 12 years, concentrating on the mentally ill and addicted before teaching courses in both composition and poetry writing at Rutgers University and York College.

Christine served on the editorial board of several literary journals, including Vernacular: A Women‘s Literary Journal, published by Women‘s Studio Center of Queens. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and once for “The Best of the Web,” her full-length book of poems, The Transparent Dinner, was published by Mayapple Press in October 2006. In 2007, she was a runner up to the Queens’ Poet Laureate. She is author of three chapbooks, Children Having Trouble with Meat (MiPoesias), The Animal Husband (Dancing Girl Press), and The Salt Daughter (Little Poem Press).

Welcome Christine!