A poet hailed for her “brilliant” imagery, “masterful” craftsmanship, and “uniquely musical voice,” Jennifer Hambrick is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of the collections a silence or two (Red Moon Press), winner of a 2025 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America; In the High Weeds (NFSPS Press), winner of the 2020 Stevens Manuscript Award; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press). Hambrick was featured by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in American Life in Poetry and with Rattle editor Tim Green on Rattlecast, and hundreds of her poems are published in Rattle, The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Maryland Literary Review, Santa Clara Review, The Main Street Rag, POEM, Modern Haiku, and in dozens of other literary journals and invited anthologies in the U.S. and abroad.

A frequent recipient of poetry commissions, Hambrick served as poet laureate for the 75th-anniversary season (2022-23) of the world-class Chamber Music Columbus concert series. Hambrick continually seeks to traverse the boundaries between artforms and so is often featured in interdisciplinary collaborations, including with Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer Mark Lomax, II; the world-renowned new music string quartet ETHEL; the VIVO Music Festival; the acclaimed visual artist Evangelia Philippidis; and the noted poet and literary critic Richard Gilbert, among others.

Winner of the 2020 Sheila-Na-Gig Poetry Prize, the Stevens Manuscript Award of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, the 2018 Haibun Award Competition of the Haiku Society of America, and the 2021 Martin Lucas Haiku Award, Hambrick has also received awards from Tokyo’s NHK World TV, Haiku Poets of Northern California, the Ohio Poetry Association, and many others. She was appointed the inaugural artist-in-residence of Bryn Du Mansion (Granville, Ohio). A public radio broadcaster, multimedia producer, and classical musician, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus, Ohio.