Samantha Tetangco is a queer Filipino-American writer and teacher. Her first collection of poetry, Hope You Blend In: Studies in Color & Light, was a finalist for the 2023 National Poetry Series Prize and is forthcoming with Broadstone Books. A multi-genre writer, her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, most notably, The Sun, Tri-Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Zone 3, Gertrude, Foglifter, and Cimarron Review, among others. Sam has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and is a Teaching Professor at the University of California Merced.
In her dailiness, Sam struggles with what it means to be a queer person of color living in a world where it has become increasingly difficult to exist as a queer person of color without writing about it. She has lived in more houses than she can count and has many places she still calls home, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and California's Central Valley where she currently resides with her wife, fellow writer Randi Beck.
In her dailiness, Sam struggles with what it means to be a queer person of color living in a world where it has become increasingly difficult to exist as a queer person of color without writing about it. She has lived in more houses than she can count and has many places she still calls home, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and California's Central Valley where she currently resides with her wife, fellow writer Randi Beck.