🌻 About, publications, contact 🌻

Fiction:

Between Here and There – First Place, Berkeley Fiction Review 2024 Sudden Fiction Contest; Nominated for 2024 Pushcart Prize

The Right Way to Drown – New England Review – Vol. 42, № 4 (Awarded Honorable Mention, Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest, September 2021, selected by Kiley Reid)

Thirteen – Sonora Review – April 2019

Nonfiction:

Boy Meets Boy: Young Hearts Ushers In A New Era of Queer Cinema, Bright Lights Film Journal, January 2025

-I post to my Substack when I have nothing better to do.

Academic: Brandeis University (BA), Ukrainian Catholic University (postgraduate studies)

Professional: I’ve tutored english at a tiny school in Ukraine, worked as an EMT at a children’s hospital, and schlepped manure at a sustainable farm.

Pronunciation: WALK-man, not WATCH-man. (по-українськи вимовляйте моє прізвище “вахман”)

Representation: Naomi Eisenbeiss at Inkwell Management

Publicity: Stephanie Mendoza at stephanie (dot) mendoza (at) harpercollins (dot) com

Contact me directly: sam (at) samwachman (dot) com