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Full Name: Janet Hamill
Biography:
Janet Hamill was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She received her B.A. in English from Rowan University and spent many years living in New York City and travelling in the United States, Europe and Africa before moving with her husband to Orange County, New York. She is a full-time writer and recipient of the One Voice/Druse Music work grant. Janet is also active as a spoken word performer with the rock band Moving Star. In 2001, they released their debut CD, Flying Nowhere. In addition to her most recent book, Body of Water, she is also the author of Troublante, The Temple, Nostalgia of the Infinite, and Lost Ceilings. City Lights Review, Bomb, and Exquisite Corpse are among the many literary journals in which her poetry and short fiction has appeared. She has released two CDs with Moving Star. In addition to Flying Nowhere, she released Genie of the Alphabet in 2003. She presently is an instructor and serves on the board at the North East Poetry Center in Warwick, New York.
Circuit Writer Information:
Category: N.Y.S.
Travel Range: Anywhere in Hudson Valley, New York City.
Transportation: Car, train, bus.
Dates Available: September-June.
Fees: $150 minimum.
Contact Information: NY
Email: hamill_janet@yahoo.com
Website (click here)
Author's Timeline:
1999 (Unknown) County
Lost Ceilings
(Pub: Telephone Books, 109 Dunk Rock Road, Guilford, Connectucut 06437; Phone: 203-453-1921. ISBN: 0-916382-35-4 )
Collection of poetry. 
1975 (Unknown) County
Troublante
(Pub: Oliphant Press. ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
1980 (Unknown) County
The Temple
(Pub: Telephone Books. ISBN: 0916382222; ISBN-13: 978-0916382223. )
Collection of poetry. 
1992 (Unknown) County
Nostalgia Of The Infinite
(Pub: Ocean View Books. ISBN: )
Collection of poetry. 
2008 (Unknown) County
Body Of Water
(Pub: Bowery Books. ISBN: )
Collection of poetry which was nominated for the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Prize.  
2010 Orange County
Janet Hamill lives in Orange County, New York. 
1967 New York County
Janet Hamill lived in New York City from 1967 to 1992; she lived in San Francisco in 1970 to 1972; in Africa in 1973; and then back in New York City.  
1992 Orange County
Janet Hamill moved permanently to the Hudson Valley in 1992.  

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