Individual Consultation: Memoir: Finding the Heart of Your Story with Signe Hammer

About Signe Hammer

Signe Hammer’s memoir, By Her Own Hand: Memoirs of a Suicide’s Daughter, was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. Her other books include Daughters and Mothers: Mothers and Daughters — a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate Selection and a German best-seller — Passionate Attachments: Fathers and Daughters in America Today, and Women: Body and Culture: Essays on the Sexuality of Women in a Changing Society.

Signe’s feature articles and personal essays have appeared in national publications including Travel/Holiday, Harper’s Bazaar, Parade, The Village Voice, Science Digest, Working Woman, Ms., Mademoiselle and The Ladies’ Home Journal. Her short stories have appeared in Playgirl and in Doubleday anthologies, and her poems in Fiction, New England Review, and On Barcelona. She has been an editor at a major book publisher and a national magazine.

Signe taught writing to adults for 12 years as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Creative Writing at New York University, receiving an Award for Teaching Excellence. For 10 years, she taught private writing workshops in San Miguel. She taught workshops at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference in both 2019 and 2020; in 2022, she taught three Zoom workshops for the San Miguel Literary Sala, including a six-hour intensive.

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By Her Own Hand: Memoirs of a Suicide’s Daughter

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Passionate Attachments

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