Samuel Jensen is a writer from El Paso, Texas. He holds an MFA in Fiction from the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, where he now teaches. His writing is forthcoming or has appeared in The Sun, The Harvard Advocate, swamp pink, the Kenyon Review, Cimarron Review, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. His stories have twice been listed as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and have received support from Tin House and the Denver Lighthouse Writers Workshop. He is at work on a novel.