Dr. Samantha Moeshe/her Assistant Professor, English Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 274Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map sam0093@uah.edu Biography Dr. Samantha Moe is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she teaches classes in creative writing and composition. Her specialty is fiction, and she is interested in the intersections of trauma, memory, language, and queerness. Her short stories have been published in Overheard Lit Mag, JAKE: The Anti-Literature Magazine, Four Palaces Publishing, and others Her fiction has won a residency at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (2021), Château d’Orquevaux Artists & Writers Residency in Champagne-Ardenne, France (2024), and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (2024). Her creative nonfiction has won first place in The Southeast Review’s Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest judged by Grace M. Cho, and Invisible City’s Flash CNF Contest judged by Lynn Steger Strong. Her poetry has won Illinois State University’s William Morgan Poetry Award and the Tom Kuster Creative Writing Award. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and experimental writing has been nominated for two Pushcarts and six Best of the Net Awards. Her first poetry book, Heart Weeds, is out from Alien Buddha Press (2022). Her second book, Grief Birds, is out from BS Literature (2023) and her third book, a hybrid full-length collection of prose and poetry, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press 2024. She is currently querying two novels. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., English (Creative Writing), Illinois State University, 2023 M.F.A., Creative Writing, Converse College 2019 B.A., English, Manhattan College, 2016 Honors & Awards The Denis Diderot Grant, Château d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, June 2024. The Emerging Artist Grant, Château d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, June 2024. Kettle Pond Writer’s Conference and Residency Fellowship, June 2023. St. Joe Community Foundation Poetry Fellow, Longleaf Writer’s Conference, May 2023. “Corallium,” Second Place Winner, the tide rises, the tide falls seasick contest, June 2023. “Back When the Deer Were Horses,” Runner-up, The Massachusetts Poetry Festival First Poem Contest, April 2023. William Morgan Poetry Award, Illinois State University, April 2023. “Cauterize,” First Place Winner, The Southeast Review’s Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest judged by Grace M. Cho, February 2023. Queer Adventures Essay Contest Longlist Award for “Late Summer, Spring 2023. “Grief Birds,” First Place Winner, Invisible City’s Flash CNF Contest judged by Lynn Steger Strong, Apr. 2022 Expertise Creative Writing (Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Experimental) Latinx Literature LGBT Studies Recent Publications “Be Sweet,” Fiction, All Existing Lit Mag (Fall 2023). “Ghost City,” Memoir, The Ignation Literary Magazine, (Fall 2023). “Cauterize,” Memoir, First Place Winner, The Southeast Review’s Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest judged by Grace M. Cho, Forthcoming November 2023. “False Ending” and “Tidal,” The Amazine Oct. 2023 https://theamazine.com/2023/10/02/2-poems-9/ “Ultra-Blue House,” Fiction, Wild Greens Magazine, Oct. 2023. https://www.wildgreensmagazine.com/#h.f73urodb4d8k. “In another universe, you stay, and we do each other’s hair for the wedding,” Poetry, The Shore Poetry Sep. 2023 https://www.theshorepoetry.org/sam-moe-in-another-universe-you-stay-and-we-do-each-others-hair-for-the-wedding. “Once,” Poetry, The Westchester Review Sept. 2023 https://www.westchesterreview.com/sam-moe. “Summer Supper,” Poetry, Words and Whispers Lit, Sept. 2023 https://www.wordsandwhispers.org/home/summer-supper. “My Love,” fiction, Discretionary Love, Aug. 2023 https://www.discretionarylove.com/my-love/. Grief Birds. Philadelphia, poetry and hybrid writing, book, BS Literature Press, Apr. 2023.
