Sam is a poet, visual artist, and performer. His work has appeared in ArabLit Quarterly, Rappahannock Review, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, and Cagibi, where he was shortlisted for the 2020 Macaron Prize in Poetry. Sam has also performed and shown his visual work in the United States and India with organizations including the Nuyorican Poets Café, Las Laguna Gallery, Exhibizone, Artefix New York, Bring Back the Poets, and Friends of ART, among others. Sam studied drawing and painting at The Art Students League of New York and received his MFA in poetry from Hunter College. He teaches classes on writing, visual art, and performance to children and adults online and in the Denver metro area.
