David Anthony Sam lives in Virginia with his wife and life partner, Linda. His poetry has
appeared in over 90 journals and his poem, “First and Last,” won the 2018 Rebecca Lard Award.
Six of his collections are in print including Final Inventory (Prolific Press 2018), Finite to Fail:
Poems after Dickinson, 2016 Grand Prize winner of the GFT Press Chapbook Contest, and Dark
Fathers (Kelsay Books 2019). He teaches creative writing at Germanna Community College,
from where he retired as President in 2017 and serves as the Regional VP on the Board of the
Virginia Poetry Society. www.davidanthonysam.com
