Douglas Hamilton-Grenham

Douglas Hamilton-Grenham is a fiction writer who uses American mythology and history, and cinematic visuals and story structure for his fiction.
A Boston area native from a large Irish, Italian, French Canadian family, Douglas grew up a very lucky queer boy with lesbian mothers and a loving brother. He went to NYU Gallatin to study Film Theory and Production. There, he discovered his love for storytelling. He built a writing portfolio while working as a janitor at MIT, computing union overtime, and late into the night at the Kendal Square Cinema. Douglas is currently finishing up his MFA degree from the Columbia University Writing Fiction program.
He is inspired by several filmmakers, writers, and artists: John Sayles, Herman Melville, Lucinda Williams, Pedro Almodovar, Bill Sherwood, Ingmar Bergman, and Michael Chabon. He is also passionately studying American foreign and domestic policy history, going through the long list of New Queer Cinema titles, trying to become fluent in Spanish, and travel as much of the United States as he can. His first published story will appear in Bluing the Blade.