About this publisher:
Fat Gold Watch Press was founded by Christine Hamm, who is doing her dissertation on Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore. Hamm has edited three anthologies, including, We Taste Like Presents, and is a poetry editor for Ping Pong Journal, published by Henry Miller Library. Ms. Hamm has performed all over the country, and been featured on NPR and local television. Her second book of poetry, Saints & Cannibals, is coming out in March, 2010.
CHRISTINE HAMM: In 2007, she was a runner up to Queens’ Poet Laureate. Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, Pebble Lake Review, Horseless Press, Lodestar Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, Poetry Midwest, MiPoesias, Rattle, Snow Monkey and Exquisite Corpse, among others. She has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and once for “The Best of the Web”. Her work has been anthologized in Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader and The Murdering of Our Years: Artists and Activists on Making Ends Meet, both by Soft Skull Press. She has three chapbooks, including Children Having Trouble with Meat, from MiPo. Her first book of poems, The Transparent Dinner, was published by Mayapple Press in October ’06, and her second book, Saints & Cannibals was published by Plain View Press in Spring ’10.
