Summer Hammond
Summer Hammond grew up in rural Iowa and Missouri, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. After parting ways with the faith, she went on to achieve a BA in Literature, and later, earn her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Her writing appears in Sonora Review, StoryQuarterly, Moon City Review, and Tahoma Review, among others. Her fiction was recognized as a semi-finalist for Nimrod Journal’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize, runner-up for Iron Horse’s Long Story Prize, and finalist for the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize. She won the 2023 New Letters Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction.
