Writer, reader, observer, New Orleanian.

Charlotte Hamrick began writing at age 53 after retiring from the healthcare field. Her debut chapbook of micro memoir & creative prose is included in Grieving Hope (ELJ Editions 2025). She has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies including Best Small Fictions 2022, 2023, and is upcoming in the 2025 anthology. Her Fiction, CNF, and Poetry has been nominated, short-listed, and long-listed for literary things multiple times. She is Managing Editor at Reckon Review where she also pens The Nitty Gritty column, and was the former Creative Nonfiction Editor for The Citron Review and Barren Magazine. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and a menagerie of rescued pets. More info: https://linktr.ee/charlottehamrick.

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