Jordan Hamel is a writer, poet, and performer. He was the 2018 Aotearoa Poetry Slam champion. His debut poetry collection Everyone is Everyone Except You was published by Dead Bird Books in 2022 and by Broken Sleep in the UK in 2024. He is also the co-editor of No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of Aotearoa climate change poetry from Auckland University Press with essa may ranapiri, Rebecca Hawkes, and Erik Kennedy. He is a Fulbright scholar and recently completed an MFA at the University of Michigan. He misses his friends and enemies back home.