Marc Hamer
Marc Hamer grew up in the North of England. After spending over a year homeless as a young man, sleeping rough and wandering the countryside, he studied fine art in Manchester and Staffordshire and began to write poetry and short stories.
He has worked in chicken shops, a steel works, the railway, art galleries, as a magazine editor, and taught art and creative writing to young prisoners before becoming a gardener which he has enjoyed being now for many years. Marc has been published in a variety of journals. He has lived with his wife in Wales for over thirty years.
Marc’s memoir How to Catch a Mole was published in the UK by Harvill Secker on 4th April 2019, and to date has been acquired by 12 other countries worldwide. Recently, How to Catch a Mole was chosen by IndieNext in the US as one of its Autumn Picks. His second book, Seed to Dust, was published in January 2021, and was shortlisted in August 2021 for the Wainright Nature Writing Prize.
His latest book, Spring Rain, was published by Harvill Secker as a hardback in February 2023 and in paperback in February 2024. It is published simultaneously in North America by Greystone Books.