Samantha Edmonds is the author of the fiction chapbook Pretty to Think So (Selcouth Station Press, forthcoming 2019). Her fiction and nonfiction appear in Mississippi Review, Literary Hub, Black Warrior Review, Pleiades, The Pinch, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She serves as the fiction editor for Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts and the Community Outreach Director for Sundress Academy for the Arts. She currently lives in Knoxville, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Tennessee.