Sam Schieren is a writer from Valley Cottage, New York. He received a BA in English and Psychology from Tufts University and an MFA in Fiction from UC Davis. Winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, his stories are published in The Iowa Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Gulf Coast, The Penn Review, and Southern Humanities Review, among other journals. He has taught at UC Davis and Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia and teaches at VCU. He is the reviews and interviews editor at Blackbird .
