Sam Collier is a playwright and poet from Washington, D.C. In 2013, her short play That Girl is in the Rearview Mirror won first prize in the Undressing Cinderella New Play Festival at Middlebury College. Her plays have also been developed by the Iowa New Play Festival, Theater Nyx, PTP/NYC, and NTI Theatermakers. Her poems have been published in Broad! and Pure Francis. She is also an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.