Samuel Cheney is a poet from Centerville, Utah. He is the winner of a 2021 Pushcart Prize, and his work appears in The American Journal of Poetry, Copper Nickel, The Literary Review, The Missouri Review, Salmagundi, and elsewhere. He has been awarded scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, was named an “Alumni to Watch” by Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences Magazine, and received the 2018 Erskine J. Poetry Prize. A graduate of Pomona College and The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, he is currently Assistant Editor of the international poetry journal Smartish Pace.