Sam Simas is a Luso-American writer and translator. His work has recently appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Copper Nickel, Southern Indiana Review, Hunger Mountain, and other literary magazines. His writing has received several awards, including the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize for Prose, DISQUIET International’s Luso-American Fellowship, and the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Fellowship. His short story collection Those We Lost in the Fog was selected as a finalist for Black Lawrence Press’ Hudson Prize. He is a PhD candidate in Fiction at the University of Cincinnati, an assistant editor for Acre Books, and a senior editorial assistant for the Cincinnati Review.

Sam holds an MLIS 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 he has also interned with Grub Street (Boston) and Barrow Street Press.