Samuel A. Autman is writer, storyteller and professor. His writing has appeared in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, The Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction, The Chalk Circle: Prizewinning Intercultural Essays, Ninth Letter, The Common Reader, Under the Gum Tree, The Little Patuxent Review, Bonfires, PANORAMA: The Journal of Travel, Place and Nature, Memoir Magazine, Brevity, The St. Louis Anthology and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology From Middle America. Autman has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches on the writing faculty at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. Alumnus of VONA Voices, Lambda Literary, Disquiet International, Tin House and Kimbilio Fiction.