Sam Campbell

Sam Campbell is a writer and teacher from Appalachia. She earned her English M.A. from East Tennessee State University, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Mockingbird. She currently serves Arkansas International as Managing Editor, and she is the fiction editor and co-founder of Black Moon Magazine. She publishes across all genres; her work appears or is forthcoming in October Hill, MORIA, Poetry South, and Still: The Journal, among others. Her awards include, but are not limited to, the 2022 Jesse Stuart Prize for Young Adult Writing and the 2021 James Still Prize. She is currently a second-year MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas.