Sam Berman

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Sam Berman

SAM BERMAN is a short story writer who lives in Chicago and works at Lake Front Medical with Nancy, Andrew, and Reuben. They are terrific coworkers. He has had work published in The Quarterless Review, Expat Press, Maudlin House, Northwest Review, The Masters Review, D.F.L. Lit, HAD, Hobart, The Idaho Review, Illuminations, CRAFT, and SmokeLong Quarterly. He recently won Forever Magazine’s Unconventional Love Stories Contest. His work was selected as runner-up in The Kenyon Review’s 2022 Nonfiction Competition as well as a semi-finalist for the 2022 Halifax Ranch Prize and the ILS Fiction Contest. He has forthcoming work in Joyland, Dream Boy Book Club and Rejection Letters, among others. Lastly: Sam has been chosen as the director of Storyfort 2023 (an AMAZING literary festival in beautiful Boise Idaho!) and is looking for writers of ALL BACKROUNDS(!!!) for programming! He wants to hear from all of you! Please reach out to him on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sugarcainberman/?hl=en