Samantha Carlin

Samantha Carlin is a writer living in New York City. She works as a project associate to the Vice Chair of GOJO Industries and volunteers as Writing Mentor for NYC non-profit Girls Write Now. She has been a Writer in Residence at The Norman Mailer Center Writer’s Colony (2012) and The Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia (New South Young Playwrights' Festival, 2008). In 2010, her essay won first prize in the Birthright-Israel Alumni Essay Contest. Samantha holds a BA from Barnard College, where she received the John Demos Prize in American Studies. She’s currently at work on a novel. Follow Samantha on Twitter at @wright2play.