Hannah Gamble

Hannah Gamble (she/they) is a poet, essayist, screenwriter, and director. Her first book of poems, Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast, won the National Poetry Series in 2011. In 2014, they received the Ruth Lilly/ Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Hannah’s second book of poems, The Traditional Feel of the Ballroom, is now available from TrioHousePress. Additionally, Gamble is the writer, director, and executive producer of the Chicago-based webseries Choose Me: An Abortion Story, which was selected for several national and international film festivals, winning several awards including the Award of Excellence for a TV Show from the Montreal Independent Film Festival and a Best Web Series award from the Miami International Film Festival in 2020.

CPC Readings

Wednesday, October 15, 2014
with Kenyatta Rogers
Chicago Cultural Center

Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Blue Hour Reading Series
with Mayda Del Valle
Zoom

Watch the reading:

Hannah Gamble begins at 6:05 minutes.
Mayda Del Valle begins at 22:02 minutes.