Samantha Tetangco is a Filipino-American writer and teacher. Her short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared and/or are forthcoming in dozens of literary magazines, most notably The Sun, Tri-Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Zone 3, Gertrude, Cimmaron Review, and others. In her past, she has served as editor-in-chief for Blue Mesa Review, been president of the Association of Writers and Writing Program's LGBTQ Writer's Caucus, and was recently an artist-in-residence in The Studios at MassMOCA. Sam has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and is currently the Associate Director of Writing at the University of California Merced.
In her dailiness, Tetangco struggles with what it means to be a queer person of color living in a world where it is becoming 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, the talented writer Randi Beck, their two dogs, and a rabbit with a name worthy of her impatient thumping demands for breakfast in the morning.
In her dailiness, Tetangco struggles with what it means to be a queer person of color living in a world where it is becoming 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, the talented writer Randi Beck, their two dogs, and a rabbit with a name worthy of her impatient thumping demands for breakfast in the morning.