Sam Butler has been previously published in The Gettysburg Review, The Found Poetry Review, the Foundling Review, and others. In 2013 one of her personal essays received a Special Mention from The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses and a Notable nod from Best American Essays. After graduating from Knox College in 2013 with a BA in Creative Writing she moved to Texas, where she maintains a small but exuberant cactus garden.