Thank you for visiting the website of Samantha Kolber, poet and editor in Montpelier, Vermont. Read some poems, buy a book (available after September 1st) and keep supporting poetry!
Poet & Publisher
Poems by Samantha Kolber (Kelsay Books, 9/1/20).
Gold Winner in Realistic Poetry, Human Relations Indie Book Award.
Poetry Winner, 2023 San Francisco Book Festival.
5-Star Readers’ Favorite.
“In Birth of a Daughter, Samantha Kolber deftly reveals the private world of pregnancy and birth—the middle of the night and light of day worries about safety, connection, and intimacy, weighing what shifts, writing, ‘I am marked. I am one becoming two, becoming one / again…my body deceives me.’ Indeed, these poems are brave in their accounting of the pregnant, birthing body and the realities of mothering, the territory we enter—‘oh, these worlds we are now / you and I.’ Dailiness and milestones merge here, bringing us on a journey that is part emotional travelogue, part wonder, part weighing of generations and of our times, and part arrival at the precise awareness that, ‘I am witness. I am mother.’ Kolber’s voice is an important one, honoring what is often kept hidden.”
— Kerrin McCadden, author of Keep This to Yourself
Publishing
Samantha is the owner / publisher of Rootstock Publishing, a curated hybrid and traditional press in Montpelier, VT, publishing award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We work with authors at all steps of the publishing process. Submissions are open!
Poetry
Samantha has been writing poetry for most of her life and has been published in Rattle, Mom Egg Review, Poems2Go, Tiny Seed Journal, Rise Up Review, Red Silk: A Red Tent Anthology, Hunger Mountain, Minerva Rising, PoemCity, and other places.
Books
Birth of a Daughter, a chapbook published by Kelsay Books in 2020, is Samantha’s first book of poetry. She is currently shopping around another chapbook, a full-length poetry manuscript, and two novels! She is also published in anthologies, and has fiction in Venus Rising.