Sam Hamill cofounded, with Bill O'Daly and Tree Swenson, Copper Canyon Press. Hamill was editor-printer there from 1972 until 2004. Hamill has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Mellon Fund, and has won the Stanley Lindberg Lifetime Achievement Award for Editing and the Washington Poets Association Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in Anacortes, Washington.