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Sam Schieren lives in Richmond, Virginia. He has published stories in The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Humanities Review, Wigleaf, Notch, Soft Union, and Bellevue Literary Review, among other places. He teaches at VCU and serves as the reviews and interviews editor at Blackbird. He received a BA in Psychology and English from Tufts University and an MFA in Fiction from UC Davis. In 2024 he won the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction.

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