William Hammett

William Hammett is the author of numerous poems, short stories, and novels.  His poetry has been featured in literary journals such as American Poets & Poetry, Rockford Review, Poem, Black Buzzard Review, Parnassus Literary Journal, Pegasus, Twilight Ending, Mojo Risin', Lynx, Poets at Work, Angelflesh, The Lyric, Ship of Fools, Offerings, Creative Juices, Shattered Wig Review, and many more. His short story, "Orphans," was published in the Rose and Thorn Journal.

Hammett is also the author of ten novels, including Street Magic, The Ghost of Richard Brautigan, Rimsky Rises (young adult), and Circling Goes the Wind (middle reader).  John Lennon and the Mercy Street Café is a work of magical realism by Hammett and has been described as a rock and roll Field of Dreams.  It was taught in universities in courses on magical realism.  Several more novels by Hammett, representing out-of-print work or new fiction, will be published by Word Wrangler Press in 2015.

Hammett taught literature and writing for twenty-two years at colleges and universities.  For the past sixteen years, he has worked as a freelance writer and editor.

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