About Me

Sam Campbell is a writer, editor, and teacher from Tennessee. She earned her English M.A. from East Tennessee State University, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The Mockingbird. She currently serves the 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, Tennessee’s Emerging Poets Anthology, and E.ratio Postmodern Poetry, among others. Her awards include, but are not limited to, the 2021 James Still Prize for Short Fiction, the 2022 James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship for Excellence in Creative Writing, and the 2023 Sue Ellen Hudson Excellence in Writing Award. She is currently a third-year fiction MFA candidate at the University of Arkansas.