Sam Heaps is the author of the novella The Living god (SARKA 2025) the memoir Proximity (Clash 2023) and an untitled project forthcoming from Future Tense late 2026. Their work has been featured places such as The Brooklyn Rail, Bomb Magazine, Bright Wall / Dark Room, Brink Magazine, among many others.

Heaps was raised in Idaho but has lived and worked all over the world. They teach writing at Temple University.

A woman with short dark hair sitting in a hotel room near a window with white curtains, with a lit red candle on the table in front of her, lit wall sconces on either side of the room, and a bed partially visible on the left.

Contact me at sam.a.heaps@gmail.com, or follow me on Instagram at @heaps.of. I’m not on X.

photo by M. Price