HOPE HAMILTON is a writer,  journalist, and creative artist. 

As a reporter for the Express News Group since 2024, Hope has had multiple feature articles published in The Southampton Press, The East Hampton Press, The Sag Harbor Express and 27East.com. 

Her one-act plays, My Best Friend, Anxiety and Zodiantics were selected for production in both the 2018 and 2019 Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP) Playwriting Festivals, respectively, and published in the YAWP E-zine. 

Currently a Senior and Dean's Scholar at Sarah Lawrence College, Hope earned a place at Wadham College, University of Oxford, England for the 2024-25 academic (Junior) year, where she studied literature, creative writing and Latin.  During her Freshman and Sophomore years, she served as information coordinator for the SLC Book Club, and a staff writer for the student newspaper, The Phoenix. She was also one of only ten students selected to represent SLC in their promotional film for Amazon Prime's The College Tour, for which she wrote her own script, and is one of two nonfiction editors for the Sarah Lawrence Literary Review, the longest running student club at SLC.

Hope is the creator and writer of two Substack publications: Your New Favorite Book, where she writes literary critique/analysis, and Deadline Day, a space for her independent journalism, creative writing work, and cultural critique. Hope keeps track of her reading and reviewing on her Goodreads. 

Hope will be serving as a publishing intern for the Tessler Literary Agency in Spring, 2026, prior to her graduation from Sarah Lawrence in May. 

In addition to writing and journalism pursuits, Hope has a background performing in theater and film. 

Hope lives in Sag Harbor, NY.