Forrest Hamer's Biography

Forrest Hamer is the author of three poetry collections--Call & Response (Alice James, 1995), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award; Middle Ear (Roundhouse, 2000), winner of the Northern California Book Award; and Rift (Four Way Books, 2007)  His work is widely anthologized, and appears in three editions of Best American Poetry.  He is also an Oakland, California psychoanalyst.