Phillip Hamrick
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Phillip Hamrick is a playwright, prose writer, composer, musicians, teacher and student, and he lives in Youngstown, Ohio.
He teaches English at Youngstown State University.
[edit] Biography
Phillip Hamrick was born July 20, 1983 in Charleston, West Virginia. "The fact that I was born there," he says, "is the only relation I will allow between us."
Hamrick read mostly the basics as a child, citing James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl as the major early works along with Dr. Seuss. Hamrick often names Dr. Seuss as the earliest major influence on his work because of its often pessimistic overtones and linguistic innovation.
Recently, Hamrick has cited the plays of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and David Ives, the prose of Italo Calvino, Martin Amis, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, and the poetry of E.E. Cummings as important influences. He also has an affection for German Expressionism and Existentialism.
Hamrick is also half of the band The Infamous Priests of El Salvador with his girlfriend Jennifer Johnstone.
[edit] Bibliography
"Post Impressions" Denver Syntax (2006)
"The Heart's Winter" Istanbul Literature Review (2007)
"The Tub" Southern Gothic (2007)
"Wait and See" Oregon Literary Review (2007)
"Incoming" Gone in 60: Screaming Media Productions, Brooklyn (2007)
"Notes on Some Cognitive Mechanisms of Humor" in New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humor: Salvatore Attardo and Diana Popa, Editors (2007)
