Sara Sams Biography

Sara Sams is a poet, translator, and editor from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. While she writes about Appalachian lore and the local legends of her hometown (the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City”), she found she needed to travel far from home in order to better explore her own region’s history. To that end, she has taught English in Granada, Spain and creative writing at the National University of Singapore. She currently teaches composition for second language learners at Arizona State University and works as Translations Editor for Waxwing Magazine.