Last updated: December 18, 2024
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Samantha DeFlitch
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Samantha DeFlitch is the author of Confluence (Broadstone Books, 2021). Her poems have appeared in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Appalachian Review, Four Way Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and On the Seawall, among others. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and her work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers'
Conference, the Audubon Artist Residency at Hog Island, and the University of New Hampshire, where she completed her MFA. She lives in New Hampshire.
Samantha’s work is informed by documentary poetics, making use of found materials such as specimen tags, regulations, and reports in both prose and lyric poetry. She is interested in how different registers of speech amplify the tension between loss & hope, and her work emphasizes the importance of perception in addressing environmental crises.
Visit her website at samanthadeflitch.com