With lines from Jane Hirshfield
Samantha Stevens
Samantha Stevens is a queer, Black, disabled writer and educator from the East Coast, Lenni-Lenape land. They are a graduate of the MFA in Poetry at the University of San Francisco and have received fellowships from The Watering Hole, Community of Writers, Esperimento Sul Respiro, The Ruby, and Kearny Street Workshop. They are the recipient of the 2022 Deathrattle/Oroboro Penrose Poetry Prize. Their work is featured in Fruitslice and forthcoming from Foglifter. Currently, they are working on their first collection of poems, Rituals for the Living. Often working to dream and exist in new ways, Samantha seeks to build a creative liberatory practice integrating writing, movement, healing, and ritual.
Edited by Elizabeth Upshur and Ivy Raff.
