Jamie Lammers was born in a hospital in Denver, Colorado, on December 30, 2001. He has lived in Coal Creek his entire life, growing up surrounded by loving parents and adoring cats. Originally, his parents sent him to Coal Creek Elementary School, but quickly decided that it was not the right environment for him, so they sent him to Nederland Elementary School instead. He spent the rest of his school years in Nederland, spending pre-K through fifth grade at the elementary school and transferring to Nederland Middle-Senior High School until his graduation in 2020. He currently studies at the University of Colorado Boulder with a major in English (specifically in creative writing) and two minors in music and film.

Lammers has been creatively inclined for as long as he can remember. He took voice and piano lessons in middle school and started participating in choir at the same time. He briefly tried trumpet and violin in fifth grade, but ultimately decided neither instrument was for him. Various teachers and peers realized he had perfect pitch before he did, and he finally realized in late high school that he had the ability to recall pitches without needing a starting tone. He learns songs aurally and has a hard time sight reading, although he is getting better at doing so. He has been seriously playing ukulele since his sophomore year of high school and guitar since his senior year.

He has been singing and performing for as long as he can remember, and in middle school, he decided to try theater. He acted in his first fall play, The Bully Pulpit, in seventh grade, but decided not to try out for the school musicals in either sixth or seventh grade. He almost avoided trying out for his eighth-grade school musical, Shrek Jr., but ultimately decided it was worth trying out. He tried out for the titular character, Scottish accent and all, and ended up getting the part, permanently cementing his love of theater.

In high school, he starred in various musicals and one-act plays and even directed multiple plays. Throughout his theater career in middle and high school, he ultimately took home Best Actor in a Play for his role in A Game (which he also directed) and Best Actor in a Musical for Shrek Jr., The Addams Family, Once Upon a Mattress, and Urinetown (which was unfortunately canceled due to COVID). He has continued acting in college, starring in the immersive experience ShakesFear at CU Boulder, multiple plays for the college’s New Play Festival, and in the first annual New Musical Project at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder.

Lammers really only became interested in writing in his junior year of high school after taking a creative writing class and an English class that inspired him to be more creative. He has been writing frequently for The Mountain-Ear since April 2019, writing about school events, local businesses, and especially music performances throughout the Peak to Peak area. In early 2022, he was published in the CU Boulder creative nonfiction journal Hindsight, and he has continued pursuing his passion for writing short stories, plays, songs, and journalistic articles since.