Samantha Kolber

Samantha lives in Montpelier, Vermont. Her poems have appeared in Red Silk: A Red Tent Anthology, Mama Says, and PoemCity. Her poem, “Jewel Tones,” received runner-up in the 2010 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize at Hunger Mountain Journal. She also has a poem forthcoming in the next Minerva Rising journal.

She is a first-place slam poetry performer and occasional slam master in and around central Vermont where she also likes to hike, ice skate, read, write, bake banana bread, and raise her son.  Samantha is currently a student in the MFA in creative writing program at Goddard College.

You can read her poems on her blog at www.sam-poet.blogspot.com.