Samantha Jones
BIO
Biography

Samantha F. Jones (she/her) is a poet, editor, and earth scientist based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary, Alberta). She is Black Canadian and white settler, with roots in Nova Scotia, Québec, and Ontario. Her debut poetry collection, Attic Rain (NeWest Press, 2024), won the 2025 Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2025 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Sam is one of six Land and Labour Poetry Collective members who co-edited the anthology I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis, which was published by Roseway in the fall of 2025. She has two experimental poetry chapbooks, Site Orientation (The Blasted Tree, 2022) and wallpaper (Model Press, 2024), that explore her lived experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sam recently earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Calgary and is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Health Arts Research Centre, University of Northern British Columbia, researching poetic inquiry as a method to connect climate and weather to experiences of wellness. 

ADDRESS
City: Calgary, Province/Territory: Alberta
EMAIL
GENRE
Poetry, Creative Non-fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
I'll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis
Publisher
Roseway Publishing
Year
2025
Title
Attic Rain
Publisher
NeWest Press
Year
2024
Title
wallpaper
Publisher
Model Press
Year
2024
Title
Site Orientation
Publisher
The Blasted Tree
Year
2022
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry (Alberta Book Publishing Awards)
Publication
Attic Rain
Year
2025
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
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