The department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS) is composed of administrators, a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and Teaching Faculty.

WGS Administrators oversee planning, programming, and day-to-day operations.

The WGS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is made up of faculty and staff who consult on curricular matters, choose scholarship and award winners, and advise on vision and programming.

The WGS Teaching Faculty includes numerous faculty members (from several colleges at UAH) who teach classes designated as Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies courses.

 

Dr. Samantha Moe

she/her Assistant Professor, English

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 266
Huntsville, AL 35899
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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, and language. She is the winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize for her third short story collection, forthcoming from Zero Street Press (University of Nebraska) in June 2027. She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Longleaf Writer’s Conference, and the Key West Literary Seminar. She has also received residencies at VCCA, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Château d’Orquevaux.

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

  • Open Wounds, Stories, winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize. Lincoln, Nebraska, Zero Street Fiction (University of Nebraska Press), May 2026.
  • Cicatrizing the Daughters, poetry book; Nominated for a Firecracker Award (’26). Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, FlowerSong Press, October 2025.
  • Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Mentor Award, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Apr. 2025.
  • Finalist, “Red Halcyon: Poems,” CavanKerry Press Open call, Jan. 2025.
  • Finalist, “Red Halcyon: Poems,” Gasher Press Book Award Jan. 2025.
  • Pushcart Nomination from Eucalyptus Lit for “Tidal,” Fiction, November 2024.
  • Pushcart Nomination from The Disappointed Housewife for “It Was the Time I Could and Couldn’t,” Poetry, November 2024.
  • Pushcart Nomination from Revolute Lit for “Rica,” Fiction, November 2024.
  • Pushcart Nomination from MasticadoresUSA for “Evening Eve Leaves, Double Sestina,” Poetry, October 2024.
  • Best of the Net Nomination from Revolute Lit for “Rica,” Fiction, November 2024.

Expertise

  • Creative Writing (Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Experimental)
  • Latinx Literature
  • LGBT Studies
  • Trauma theory

Recent Publications

  • Open Wounds, Stories. Lincoln, Nebraska. Zero Street Fiction (University of Nebraska Press), winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize, 2027.

  • Welcome Home: Horror Short Stories. Phoenix, Arizona. Alien Buddha Press, March 2026.

  • “The Night Market,” Prairie Schooner, forthcoming February/March 2027.