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Jennifer Hambrick (born Jennifer Mary Hambrick, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.), American classical musician, broadcaster, poet, and literary critic. Her haiku collection a silence or two won a 2025 HSA Merit Book Award and her haibun collection Joyride won Haiku Canada’s Marianne Bluger Book Award. Hambrick’s longer poetry has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Prize and she was the winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Press Poetry Contest. Ted Kooser featured her in his newspaper column American Life in Poetry, and Tim Green had her read on his Rattlecast blog and podcast. Hambrick’s haikai have won honors in the Martin Lucas Haiku Awards, the HSA Haibun Awards, Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards, the ITO EN Art of Haiku Contest, NHK World TV’s Haiku Masters series, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Contest, the Betty Drevniok Haiku Contest, the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, and the Golden Haiku Contest. She has received top awards for her scholarly articles in the THF journal Juxtapositions. Hambrick served as program chair for Haiku North America 2023. She resides in Columbus, Ohio.
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