Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised in the American South. He holds the 2023-2025 fellowship in poetry at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh. Hamilton’s poetry has recently appeared in Lana Turner Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Obsidian, and Notre Dame Review. He is the author of two books of poetry, Rest of Us (Re-Center Press, 2021) and Discordant (Autumn House Press, 2023). He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa.