Samuel Ligon

Samuel Ligon is the author of two novels—Among the Dead and Dreaming, and Safe in Heaven Dead—and two collections of stories, Wonderland, illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and Drift and Swerve. He's co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze—an anthology of prose and poetry inspired by their popular reading series.

Ligon's stories have appeared in Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, New England Review, The Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He edits the journal Willow Springs, teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, and is Artistic Director of the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference.