Briana Grace Hammerstrom

Briana Grace Hammerstrom is a poet from Modesto, CA currently residing in Portland, OR. She has participated in the Individual World Poetry Slam, the National Poetry Slam, and ran Flagstaff Poetry Slam from 2016 to 2019. She was the HBR Haiku Deathmatch Champion of the Redwoods Poetry Festival in 2022. Her work has been showcased in Novus Literary Magazine, Palette Poetry, How We Are, and in other publications across the US. Her poetry is varied- from queer joy to sheer outrage, she discerns magic in mundane language.