Samantha Tetangco is a Filipino-American writer and teacher.  A multi-genre writer, her short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in The Sun, Foglifter, Gargoyle, Phoebe, Gertrude and others. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of New Mexico where she served as editor-in-chief for Blue Mesa Review.  She currently teaches writing at the University of California Merced and is the president for the Association of Writers and Writing Conference's LGBTQ Caucus.  She lives in California's Central Valley.

A place-driven writer, Sam's work revolves around the multidue of places she's once lived and (often) still calls home, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and California's Central Valley where she currently lives with her wife and their two dogs.