Samantha Malay’s poetry was recently published in โHeading In and Out: Transient Life Poemsโ (Poetsโ Choice, 2024) and will soon appear in Mantis. Steel Toe Books short-listed her chapbook โRealmโ (2023), and Shark Reef Magazine nominated her poem โBetweenโ for a Pushcart Prize (2020). She grew up in rural northeastern Washington State, where her family built a cabin with timbers salvaged from an abandoned homestead, hauled water from a creek, and read by kerosene lamp. Her experiences in that time and place continue to shape her work.