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Sam Schieren

Sam Schieren, faculty fiction editor, is a lecturer in Virginia Commonwealth University’s English Department. Winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, his stories have been published in The Iowa Review, Notch, Wigleaf, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. 

Book Reviews, Craft Essays, and Interviews

  • Yearning Drives the Plot: A Review of All Girls Be Mine Alone by Sophie Strohmeier

  • Interview With Pam Houston

  • Review: Pam Houston’s WITHOUT EXCEPTION: RECLAIMING ABORTION, PERSONHOOD, AND FREEDOM

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