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Sam Berman is a short story writer and medical supplies salesman from Chicago, Illinois. He has had work published in Forever Magazine, Joyland, Expat Press, Maudlin House, the Northwest Review, The Masters Review, Hobart, CRAFT, Dream Boy Book Club, Rejection Letters and The Idaho Review among others. and SmokeLong Quarterly. He was selected as the runner-up for The Kenyon Review’s 2022 Nonfiction Competition and was a semi-finalist for the 2023 & 2024 Halifax Ranch Prize. This year he has nominations pending for the Pushcart Prize, as well as a Best American Short Stories nomination. He has forthcoming work in Sarka, Back Patio Press, X-RAY and HAD, among others. 2024 is his second year as director of Storyfort: a literary festival held annually in his home town of Boise, Idaho as part of Treefort Music Festival.