Samantha grew up in rural northeastern Washington State, where her family built a cabin with timbers salvaged from an abandoned homestead, hauled water from a creek, and lived without electricity. Her experiences in that time and place continue to shape her understanding of the body, memory, environment and creativity.

Her mixed-media work fuses found textiles, travel ephemera, and beeswax. It has been published in The Grief Diaries, Cahoodaloodaling, Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art, Temenos, Chaleur Magazine, Apeiron Review, Hey, I’m Alive Magazine, and Sheepshead Review. She is an annual contributor to A.I.R. Gallery’s Postcard Exhibit and Fundraiser, in Brooklyn, New York. Her artwork is in the MERZ Gallery permanent collection, in Sanquhar, Scotland, and will be included in the book Collage Your Life: Techniques, Prompts, and Inspiration for Creative Self-Expression and Visual Storytelling, by Melanie Mowinski (Storey Publishing, 2022).

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Samantha's poem ‘Between’ was a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee (Shark Reef Magazine), and she contributed images and words to the multilingual anthology The Very Edge: Poems (Flying Ketchup Press, 2020). Her poetry recently appeared in Plainsongs (Corpus Callosum Press, winter 2022), and will soon be published by Kind Writers and Five South. Her poem/collage ‘Inland’ will be featured in “The Art of the Postcard: We Are All Artists,” presented by Inverted Syntax at Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, Colorado, February 11 – March 6, 2022. Her chapbook Realm is forthcoming.

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