Sam Sussman is a writer who has lived in Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York. His work has won the BAFTA New Writing Award and the Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize. He has published in Harper’s, Tel Aviv Review of Books, The Forward, Dissent, and Haaretz. He has taught fiction seminars via Oxford Summer Courses in India, South America, and Europe.

Sam holds a B.A. in philosophy and literature with highest honors from Swarthmore College (2013), and an M.Phil in political theory from Oxford (2017), where he researched the resistance of ordinary citizens to crimes against humanity in the twentieth century. 

Sam has enjoyed fellowships at LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture at the 14th Street Y in New York, the Aydelotte Foundation, and the American Middle East Network for Dialogue at Stanford.

Contact: sussman.sam@gmail.com