Samantha Edmonds

Samantha Edmonds

Bio

Samantha Edmonds is an MFA candidate at the University of Tennessee. She holds an MA in creative writing from the University of Cincinnati. Her fiction appears widely in Pleiades, Monkeybicycle, Indiana Review, Midwestern Gothic, Hobart, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and more. Her nonfiction appearS or is forthcoming in such journals as The Billfold, Ravishly, Bustle, and The Scold.

Samantha Edmonds Articles

When I was a kid, my dad and I didn’t spend much time together. He was always taking my brother on weekend trips to go fishing, or waking him up when it was still dark to go deer-hunting, but I never wanted to go.

How I Caught A Dad On Pokemon Go

When I told him that I caught a Mantine, he wrote back, Yeah, I think I caught four or five of them today. I didn’t mind—for the first time in my life, my dad and I were talking without a mediator. He called around Thanksgiving to tell me that a new Pokémon had been added. He checked in again during a special water event in the game and said, Are you catching the fire out of these water Pokémon?

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Samantha EdmondsJenni Berrett

One Bedroom, One Bathroom, & One Big Dalmatian

He’s happy as only a dog can be, but what was I thinking, bringing a big Dalmatian into a 650-square-foot space? I was not thinking of space.

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Samantha EdmondsJenni Berrett
It is an age-old question: Where do you separate art from artist? And should you?

I Used To Idolize Johnny Depp — Now, My Heart Is Breaking

My relationship to him was such that, for most of my friends and family, to think of Depp is to think immediately of me — my parents and most of my aunts and uncles even refer to him as “Johnny,” as if he were a personal friend.

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Samantha EdmondsJenni Berrett