Adele Hampton is a storyteller, poet, and lover of mason jars, with roots planted in Washington, DC. She has performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a Capturing Fire Queer Spoken Word Summit and Slam finalist. She is featured in the anthologies We Will Be Shelter (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014) and Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry (Lowbrow Press, 2013). She was a member of the 2013 Beltway Poetry Slam team and is the 2016 BBC Slam Champion.