Samuel A. Autman is a U.S. born award-winning essayist, travel writer, video essayist and newspaper trained journalist whose work focuses on identity, place and pop culture.  His essays have appeared in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction, The Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction, The Chalk Circle: Prizewinning Intercultural Essays, Ninth Letter, The Common Reader, Under the Gum Tree, The Little Patuxent Review, Bonfires, PANORAMA: The Journal of Travel, Place and Nature, Memoir Magazine, Brevity, The St. Louis Anthology and Sweeter Voices Still: An LGBTQ Anthology From Middle America. His video essay "The Train Rolls On," will appear in the new edition of PANORAMA: The Journal of Travel, Place and Nature, and his latest essay "An Unorthodox Trip" will appear in the next edition of The Linden Review. Autman has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University. Alumnus of VONA Voices, Lambda Literary and Disquiet International.

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On Instagram and Twitter: @samuelautman

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