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.