In Are You There, Indiana poet Samantha Fain refracts contemporary melancholia into iridescent lyricism
Samantha (Sam) Fain is a poet from Indiana. Her chapbook Coughing Up Planets debuted with VA Press in March of 2021. Her microchapbook, sad horse music, debuted with The Daily Drunk in May of 2021. Catalina Ponce of Cicada Editora translated this work, and Música de Caballo Triste was published in 2024. Sam co-edited Kiss Your Darlings: A Taylor Swift Anthology with Olney Magazine in 2022. Are You There is her debut full-length collection. Find her at samanthafain.com.