Samantha Tetangco (she/her) is a Filipino-American lesbian writer and award-winning educator. Her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines including The Sun, Tri-Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Zone 3, Gertrude, Foglifter, and Cimarron Review and many others. Her first collection of poetry, Hope You Blend In: Studies in Color & Light (forthcoming Broadstone Books 2024) was a finalist for the 2023 National Poetry Series Prize. An avid Dungeons and Dragons player, she is currently at work on a fantasy series that incorporates her love of world building and collaborative storytelling.
Sam is a faculty member in Writing Studies at the University of California Merced where she teaches both professional and creative writing with a focus on sound and audio storytelling, collaborative storytelling, and anti-racist pedagogy. She received her Bachelors of the Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters of Fine Arts, with Distinction, from the University of New Mexico.
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. Her writing illustrates the reality of these challenges, her queerness and race permeating each piece, regardless of the genre. 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.
Sam is a faculty member in Writing Studies at the University of California Merced where she teaches both professional and creative writing with a focus on sound and audio storytelling, collaborative storytelling, and anti-racist pedagogy. She received her Bachelors of the Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters of Fine Arts, with Distinction, from the University of New Mexico.
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. Her writing illustrates the reality of these challenges, her queerness and race permeating each piece, regardless of the genre. 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.