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About Samantha
Samantha Kolber, MFA
Samantha Kolber is an award-winning poet and piemaker with poems in Whimsical Poet, PoemCity, Rattle, Oddball Magazine, Mom Egg Review, Poems2Go, Tiny Seed Journal, Rise Up Review, Hummingbird, Hunger Mountain, Minerva Rising, The Meadow, and other journals and anthologies. Her pies are enjoyed by her family, members of the community, and the pie judges at the Montpelier Farmers’ Market.
She received her MFA from Goddard College, and completed post-grad studies at Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program. Originally from Plainsboro, New Jersey, she lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she is the new Owner & Publisher at Rootstock Publishing! Birth of a Daughter published by Kelsay Books in 2020 is her first chapbook.
Awards:
2023 Poetry Winner, San Francisco Book Festival (Birth of a Daughter)
2023 Five-Star Reader’s Favorite (Birth of a Daughter)
2022 Pumpkin Pie Winner, Capital City Farmers’ Market
2021 Apple Pie Winner, Capital City Farmers’ Market
2021 Gold Winner, Human Relations Indie Book Award, Realistic Poetry (Birth of a Daughter)
2021 Finalist, May Day Mountain Chapbook Series with VCFA (Classified)
2019 Semifinalist, Crab Orchard Series in Poetry’s First Book Prize (Jewel Tones)
2014 First Place, J. Richard Barry Memorial Award, Poetry Society of Vermont (The River Was the Only Sound)
2010 Runner-Up, Ruth Stone Poetry Prize (Jewel Tones)
photo credit: Emmett Kolber