Ivy Hamid
Storyteller in Prose
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams”
Bio
Ivy Hamid is a writer of middle-grade fantasy based in Richmond, Virginia. Her most recent manuscript was a finalist in the 2022 London Times / Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition. She was an artsy kid who got a degree in art history, and has worked in and around museums ever since. She put in her time in New York, slightly to the south of Sing Sing, before moving down to the real South. She belongs to the James River Writers, the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and an awesome critique group called the Richmond Fantasy Collective.
Current Projects
I Was An Alien Fashion Model
To save an alien fashion house, a shy plus-size Earth girl finds the confidence to walk the galaxy’s biggest runway—just as she is. Published in November of 2024.
Burning
Embers
The Richmond Fantasy Collective has published its first anthology, a collection of five stories about dragons. Published in November of 2023.
Memories of a Kentucky Childhood
Writing for her granddaughter, my mother describes what it was like to grow up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky in the 1930s and 40s.
The Writer’s
Gallery
Challenge your creativity with works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and other major collections.
The Witches
of Venice
In the dark canals of Renaissance Venice, a young singer battles a city full of witches and her own destiny, with the help of a poor nobleman and a flying cat.
Critical Reviews
“So pleased to have my biography featured in the 2023 book Burning Embers. Ivy conveys my story with spirit and pathos.”
Euphrene the Dragon
“Ivy Hamid is one of Earth's best composers of prose narratives. She knows nothing about galactic fashion, but she shows great sympathy for the trials of my Earth friend Katra.”
Madam Xanis, Creative Director of the House of U’kib’tu
“Off with her head!”
The Queen of Hearts
