South Carolina native Sam Howie has published or has forthcoming more than thirty pieces of fiction and nonfiction in such publications as Shenandoah, The Writer's Chronicle, Fiction International, Snake Nation Review, Potomac Review, and Southern Humanities Review.  His work appears in two Hub City anthologies, In Morgan's Shadow and Hub City Christmas.

First alternate for the 2005 South Carolina Individual Artist Fellowship in prose, Howie has served as Acting Director of Creative Writing at Converse College, where he currently teaches and directs the Writing Center.  In the summer, he directs and teaches fiction in the college's Young Writers Summer Workshop. 

In 2002, Howie received his MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College. He currently lives in Spartanburg with his wife, Margaret, and their son, Jed.