sam sax is a queer, Jewish, writer and educator. They are the author of Madness, winner of the National Poetry Series, and Bury It, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Their poems have been published in New York Times, Poetry Magazine, and Buzzfeed. sam has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, and the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. At Mesa Refuge, they worked on Pig, a book of poems about pigs (police, queerness, farm animals, global food systems, and kashrut law) and a novel about protest, climate change, religion, and desire. You can learn more about sam here.