Baker Artist Portfolios

Samuel Cheney is a poet from Centerville, Utah. He is the winner of a 2021 Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in The American Journal of Poetry, Copper Nickel, The Literary Review, The Missouri Review, Salmagundi, and elsewhere. He has previously been awarded the 2018 Erskine J. Poetry Prize and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the State of Utah. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net, multiple Pushcart Prizes, and his manuscript "Cowboy Songs" was Semi-Finalist for the Frost Place Chapbook Competition. He has taught fiction and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, where he persued his Master of Fine Arts, and currently teaches at Stevenson University. He lives in Baltimore, where he helps edit Smartish Pace and is at work on his debut collection.