Dr. Samantha Moe
she/her
Assistant Professor,
English
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, and language. Her short stories have been published in Brink Literary, South Dakota Review, Zoetic Press, and others Her fiction has won a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA 2025), Château d’Orquevaux Artists & Writers Residency in Champagne-Ardenne, France (2025), and the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow (2025). 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 second place in the International Chapbook Contest, judged by Diane Seuss, and her newest poetry collections were finalists in the Gasher Press Contest and the CavanKerry Press open call. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and experimental writing was nominated for seven Pushcarts, seven Best of the Net Awards, and two Best Small Fictions nominations. She has eight books under contract, including her first short story collection, out from Experimental Fiction, and her next two poetry books, forthcoming from Querencia Press and Redhawk Publishing in 2026. 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
- Writer-in-Residence, Virginia Center for the Arts, August 2025
- Artist-in-Residence, Château d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, July 2025.
- Writer-in-Residence, Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, May 2025
- 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
“Open Wounds,” Fiction, Brink Literary Mag (Spring 2025).
Every Passion a Curse, Stories, Experiments in Fiction (Spring 2025).
“Dearest,” Poetry, Gone Lawn (Spring 2025)
“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.