Ed Sams is an American author and educator.
Career
Born in
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in Knox County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the Tennessee River and had a population of 190,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division ...
, Sams has authored short stories, essays, and poems for both regional and national periodicals. His plays have been produced throughout Northern California and in New York City.
In 2004, his play ''Love on the Loathsome Stage'' was produced at Mountain Community Theater in Santa Cruz County.
In 2012, his first novella,
Wicked Hill', was published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company. In 2018, his short story "Among the Fairies" was published in the antholog
''Santa Cruz Weird'' Also in 2018, his play ''The Circle Rules'' was produced at
The Players Theatre
The Players Theatre, located at 115 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and Bleecker Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, is one of the oldest commercial Off-Broadway theatres in operation in New York City. The Players Theatre co ...
in New York City as part of its Short Play Festival and voted the winner of the second week of competition.
Sams and his wife, Sally, are founders of Yellow Tulip Press, which publishes what it calls "curious
chapbook
A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts and printed on a single sheet folded into 8, 1 ...
s and hysterical histories."
Regarded as an expert on
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was Trial, tried and Acquittal, acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her Patricide, father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was c ...
and the
Fall River Murders
The Fall River murders were a series of three homicides that took place in Fall River, Massachusetts, from October 1979 to February 1980 allegedly by a satanic cult. It was the onset of a period in American history known as the Satanic panic.
Th ...
, Sams was the guest speaker at
New York City Opera's premiere of the opera
''Lizzie Borden''.
He teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at
San Jose State University
San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the List of oldest schools in California, oldest public university on the West Coast of ...
in
San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is ...
.
San Jose State University Faculty
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References
External links
Ed Sams at Goodreads
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American dramatists and playwrights
American male novelists
San Jose State University faculty
Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
American male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American male writers
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