Kelsea Hamm

Kelsea Hamm is a poet, recording artist, and reality TV firestarter known for her unapologetic presence and deeply vulnerable storytelling. She first stepped into the spotlight as a breakout star on the hit reality series Shore Thing, where her bold personality, no-nonsense attitude, and explosive confrontations made her unforgettable. But behind the viral moments and reality TV chaos is a woman who writes her way through the pain. Born and raised in the Midwest, Kelsea’s voice was shaped by heartbreak, survival, and the quiet moments no one sees. Her debut poetry collection, Ripped Pages, Broken Bones, cemented her as more than a TV personality—it revealed her as a writer who bleeds onto the page. With visceral honesty and spiritual reckoning, she followed it up with My Body Is a Chapel, a raw exploration of faith, healing, and the wreckage left behind by love and trauma. A deluxe edition of the collection, featuring 19 new poems, dives even deeper into the themes that have haunted and shaped her. Kelsea’s art is rooted in contradiction: soft yet furious, holy yet broken, public yet deeply personal. Whether she’s performing spoken word, writing in the margins of hotel bibles, or returning to the screen for another unforgettable sit-down, Kelsea moves through the world as a woman on fire—unpolished, unfiltered, and unapologetically herself. She is the CEO of Trans Baddies Midwest, a champion of queer visibility, and a voice for those still trying to find their own. Her work is not for the faint of heart. It’s for the ones who’ve been burned, buried, and told to be quiet—and chose to speak anyway.