Samantha Kathryn OBrien

Fiction Writer

Overview

Samantha Kathryn O’Brien is a fiction writer and educator based in Ithaca, NY. Her writing has been published in or received awards from Zoetrope, Indiana Review, The Washington Square Review, The Los Angeles Review, New American Fiction, The Southern Humanities Review, Rumpus, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. She holds degrees from Amherst College, The University of Edinburgh, and Cornell University, where she received her MFA in 2024. She teaches creative and critical writing to Cornell undergraduates and incarcerated adults through a Philip H. Freund fellowship, as well as through the Cornell Prison Education Program. 

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