A Brooklyn-based writer and educator, Sammi LaBue is basically obsessed with the feeling of having an idea and writing it down. She is the author of the creative writer’s guided journal, Words in Progress (DK Sept 2020), and the founder of Fledgling Writing Workshops, which hosts generative courses online and in person. You can find some of her other creative work in PANK, Glamour, Hobart, The Feminist Wire and beyond. She earned her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and pens historical fiction with a touch of magic. Her latest work, Welcome to Hooverville, is an SMK Prize winner and was long listed in Mslexia’s 2020 Novel Contest.