Sam Simas is a Luso-American writer and translator. His work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Copper Nickel, Southern Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, and other literary magazines; his writing has been nominated for several awards and has won Copper Nickel’s Editor’s Prize for Prose, as well as first-place in CRAFT‘s First Chapters Contest. He was selected as a Luso-American Fellow for DISQUIET International and has received support to attend various conferences. He is a PhD student in fiction at the University of Cincinnati, and an editorial assistant for Acre Books and the Cincinnati Review.

Sam holds an MLIS degree and an MA in English Literature from the University of Rhode Island. He received the Beatrice S. Demers Fellowship to study at L’Université de Rennes 2, in France, and has interned with Grub Street (Boston) and Barrow Street Press.