Samantha Paige Rosen’s essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, Slate, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and elsewhere, and she has written short stories for Necessary Fiction and Lumina Journal. She earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud Smith College graduate. Sam writes, teaches, and tutors outside of Philadelphia and has three cats who are her children. Say hi at samanthapaigerosen.com or on Twitter @samanthaprosen.
I think humor is so important to who we are as people, how we deal with pain, how we connect with one another. It’s essential to my being and my writing.