Sam Baker is an author of poetry, fiction, and essays on the craft of writing from Louisville, Kentucky. He currently attends Kenyon College where he received the largest Kenyon creative writing scholarship, works for the Kenyon Review as an associate, and was awarded a spot as a featured author of Kenyon's Sunset Press 2021-22. Baker's works have been featured in The Ice Colony, Up North Lit, Straight Forward Poetry, The Elevation Review, the K'in Literary Journal, and the Evocations Review.