Samantha Smith
Samantha Smith is a native New Yorker who graduated with her MFA degree in creative nonfiction writing from Hunter College in May 2011. She works an adjunct lecturer in the English department at Hunter College. After completing her degree, Smith was nominated for the Schuster Award for Outstanding Masters Thesis. This past summer, she was chosen as a fellow of Columbia University’s Summer Institute on ‘Rethinking 9/11’. Currently, she is working on a memoir about her family. She was selected as one of Granta’s New Voices in September 2011.
Samantha Smith on Granta.com
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Samantha Smith | Interview
Samantha Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
‘To write this memoir, I’ve had to open old wounds and go back to them again and again.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
To Stand in the Shadow
Samantha Smith
‘I orient myself in time with ‘before’ and ‘after’, using September 11 as a placemarker.’
