Joe Samuel Starnes, known simply as
Sam to friends and family, is a novelist
and journalist living in Philadelphia
where he is a Visiting Writer at Saint
Joseph's University.
His articles have appeared in The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The
Boston Globe, and The Philadelphia
Inquirer, among other places. Essays have
appeared in the Yalobusha Review and
CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual;
five biographic sketches appeared in the
Literature edition of the Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture. Click here to visit a
blog with recently published essays and
articles. He also writes a blog about
tennis at www.topspinblog.com.
He has had short stories and poems
published in The Newark Metro,
Stillpoint and The Old Red Kimono. An
earlier novel won an honorable mention
in the 2002 Florida First Coast Writing
Conference Novel Contest.
He holds a journalism degree from
the University of Georgia and an M.A.
in English from Rutgers. He was
awarded a fellowship to the 2006
Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Sam to friends and family, is a novelist
and journalist living in Philadelphia
where he is a Visiting Writer at Saint
Joseph's University.
His articles have appeared in The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The
Boston Globe, and The Philadelphia
Inquirer, among other places. Essays have
appeared in the Yalobusha Review and
CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual;
five biographic sketches appeared in the
Literature edition of the Encyclopedia of
Southern Culture. Click here to visit a
blog with recently published essays and
articles. He also writes a blog about
tennis at www.topspinblog.com.
He has had short stories and poems
published in The Newark Metro,
Stillpoint and The Old Red Kimono. An
earlier novel won an honorable mention
in the 2002 Florida First Coast Writing
Conference Novel Contest.
He holds a journalism degree from
the University of Georgia and an M.A.
in English from Rutgers. He was
awarded a fellowship to the 2006
Sewanee Writers' Conference.
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