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Samantha (Sam) Fain is a poet from Indiana. Her first chapbook, Coughing Up Planets, debuted with VA Press in March of 2021. Her microchapbook, sad horse music, debuted with The Daily Drunk in May of 2021, and was translated into Spanish by Catalina Ponce of Chile's Cicada Editora in 2024. She co-edited Kiss Your Darlings: A Taylor Swift Anthology with Olney Magazine in 2022. Her debut full-length collection, Are You There, is out now with Bad Betty Press.
Sam received her Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from Franklin College and her Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Bowling Green State University. She has received fellowships from the Chautauqua Institution and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. She is a Best-of-the-Net and Pushcart-nominated poet. Sam's work has appeared in The Indianapolis Review, A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing, SWWIM, Peach Mag, 8 Poems, Non.Plus Lit, and others. |