Sam Szanto is a Pushcart prize-nominated writer living in Durham, UK. Her poetry pamphlet This Was Your Mother was published by Dreich Press in 2024; Splashing Pink by Hedgehog Press; her short-story collection If No One Speaks by Alien Buddha Press. She won first prize in the Wirral Festival Poetry Prize, the Charroux Poetry Prize, the First Writer Poetry Prize, the Shooter Flash Prize and the Mum Life Stories Prize. She has poems in journals including Rialto, South Carolina Review. The North, Atrium, Dust Poetry, Broken Spine, and The Storms. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University and is working on a practice-led PhD about parenthood poetry at York St John. Facebook: sam-szanto. Website: samszanto.com