Samantha K. Smith holds an MFA degree in creative nonfiction writing from Hunter College, where she was awarded a Hertog fellowship and now works as an adjunct instructor in the English department. Smith was nominated for the Shuster Award for Outstanding Masters Thesis by Kathryn Harrison. She was chosen as a fellow of Columbia University’s Summer Institute on “Rethinking 9/11: Life Stories, Cultural Memory and the Politics of Representation.” Her work has been published in The New York Times, Granta Magazine, Slate, and The Common, among other outlets. She is currently working on a memoir.