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!
Author, Poet, Publisher
What She Stole
A Novel by Samantha Kolber
(Rootstock Publishing, 12/01/26)
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.
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
Samantha is the author of What She Stole, her debut novel releasing December 1, 2026, and Birth of a Daughter, a poetry chapbook published by Kelsay Books in 2020. She is also published in anthologies and has fiction in Venus Rising.