Samantha's writing career started in high school with cut n' paste zines. Her recent work appears in Seattle's Child, The Rumpus, Bitch magazine, Crosscut, Literary Mama, and Hip Mama. Living in Seattle, WA, she spends hours tuned in to KEXP and torturing her son with off-key sing-along renditions of Cheap Trick, Santigold, and any song she remotely recognizes. She teaches prose writing at the Hugo House and is a cofounder of The Looseleaf Reading Series, which puts emerging and established women-identified writers on the same stage.