Nicole Hamer

Photos by Nicole Hamer.

Nicole Hamer is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in BITCH Magazine, GOOD Magazine, WBUR Arts & Culture, River Teeth, Hobart, and Foliate, OH Reader!, among other publications. Her play, Clark and Kent, was performed on stage in Chicago. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and has taught nonfiction writing at the undergraduate level. Nicole worked as a freelance writer in the Middle East. She has also worked in finance and publishing and produced independent documentaries for radio. She once threw a woman's luggage off a train in the South of France, then lived to tell the story on stage.

She is currently working on a book about Black travel abroad and a short documentary about James Baldwin's stint in a Parisian jail. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination for her creative nonfiction piece, How Come You No Hello Me When You Know Me So Well, which appeared in River Teeth 24.1.

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