Samantha Kolber is an award-winning poet and piemaker with poems in Whimsical Poet, PoemCity, Rattle, Oddball Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Poems2Go, Tiny Seed Journal, Rise Up Review, Hunger Mountain, Minerva Rising, The Meadow, and other journals and anthologies. 

She received her MFA from Goddard College, and completed post-grad studies at Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program. Originally from Plainsboro, New Jersey, she lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she is the new Owner & Publisher at Rootstock Publishing. Birth of a Daughter published by Kelsay Books in 2020 is her first chapbook.