Her first collection of short fiction, titled Tales from the Eternal Cafe (Three Rooms Press, 2014), was named one of the "Best Books of 2014" by Publishers Weekly.

After graduation, Hamill and Patti Smith moved from South Jersey to New York City, where they found their first apartments near the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

She took a freighter across the Atlantic and traveled through much of North Africa and Europe, including to Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania.

She read at venues, including the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, and wrote, directed, and acted in Bob Holman’s Poet's Theatre and performed with new wave musician Adele Bertei at the Mudd Club.

She taught creative writing workshops at The Poetry Project for Naropa University,[9] New England College, and Seligmann Center.