Autman, Samuel A., MFA
Assistant Professor of English
Samuel Autman's essay “A Dash of Pepper in the Snow” was a winner of the Tara L. Masih Intercultural Essay Prize, sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women in San Francisco in 2010 and will be included in The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewining Essays, and comes out next summer under Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, Inc. Two pieces, “A Walk Through the Neighborhood” and “Invisible Nails” both from Sanctified: A Memoir, received honorable mention in the Linda Joy Myers Memoir and the Katheryn Krotzer Laborde Literary Nonfiction contests, respectively, from the National League of American Pen Women. Two of Autman’s essays earned honorable mentions in the University of New Orleans Study Abroad nonfiction competition in 2007 and 2010. In January of 2012 his essay "Family" will run in Creative Nonfiction's Brevity: A Concise Journal of Literary Nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Q Review, www.postcardmemoirs.com, I’m Black and I Travel, as well as in many reason newspapers and magazines. In his spare time he helps clients write nonfiction book proposals in preparation for agents and publishing houses. His most successful client was Cupcake Brown who wrote the New York Times bestseller A Piece of Cake. Autman finished an MFA in narrative nonfiction at Columbia University.