Overview
Sean Sam is a lecturer at Cornell University, where he won the George Harmon Coxe Fiction Prize. His writing has appeared in Joyland, The Georgia Review, Salt Hill, Potomac Review, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere. In 2026, he was awarded a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in nonfiction. He is the winner of Terrain.org’s 12th Annual Fiction contest, received an honorable mention in Zoetrope: All-Story’s Short Fiction Competition, and was a finalist for Poetry Northwest’s James Welch Prize. He is a member of the Navajo Nation and is currently at work on a novel.