Graham Hillard

Graham Hillard joined Do No Harm in the spring of 2026 after four years as editor at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and fifteen in a university English department. He has contributed commentary, reportage, and criticism to numerous magazines and websites, including the American Conservative, City Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard.

He has written on many occasions for National Review and is the TV critic for the Washington Examiner. On two occasions, his work has been listed among the year’s “notables” in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Best American Essays anthology. He was a finalist for the 2012 Livingston Award for Young Journalists in the “local reporting” category and the recipient of a 2017 individual artist fellowship for poetry from the Tennessee Arts Commission. His book of poems, Wolf Intervals, was published in the Poiema Poetry Series (Cascade Books) in 2022.

Hillard holds a bachelor’s degree in communication arts from Union University and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with his wife and children.