Samantha Reiser was an English Concentrator at Harvard College, where she graduated in 2011, with honors. Her senior thesis was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, and several of the poems in her collection have been published in Lyre, Lyre and J. Journal among others. She continues to write poetry while she works as a coordinator with the US Program of Human Rights Watch. She will begin law school in fall of 2015.

Books by Samantha Reiser:

About Tomas Simon and Other Poems:

"If the creative task is to balance clarity and mystery, Samantha Reiser has done it. If the moral task is to weigh acts of creation against acts of destruction, Reiser knows: 'Nothing is captured.' 'I fear my own thievery,' she wisely writes, as she pushes herself and us with raging agility in content and form, in this, her first collection of poems."
—Estha Weine