About Me

 Jordan Hamel (he/him/his) is a Pōneke-based poet and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam Champion and has performed at slams and festivals across Aotearoa and the USA.  In September 2019  he flew to San Diego to compete in the 2019 Individual World Poetry Slam Championships.

He is the co-editor of everyone's favourite lockdown lit-journal Stasis. He is also a co-editor of a Forthcoming Climate Change Poetry Anthology to be published by Auckland University Press. Recent poems of his have popped up in The Spinoff, Newsroom, SPORT 47, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Landfall and elsewhere. You can read some of it here. ​

Jordan also occasionally writes things for The Spinoff and previously for The Niche Cache.  He's obsessed with all things pop culture and NBA. He's also an MC, aspiring spoken word educator and disgraced sudoku champion. He loves collaboration (and writing in the third person) so drop him a line about your upcoming projects/workshops/shows/ideas.