About

Samantha Schoech is a writer and co-editor of the book The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the Sweater.

Samantha Schoech is a seasoned writer, editor, and content provider who specializes in working with clients to help them communicate their brands and express their personalities through voice. She has worked with lifestyle brands and publications such as Sunset, Houzz, Trulia, and OZY. For Twitter Ads, she provided content for everything from training videos, to tweets, to physical packaging. Her travel pieces and other lifestyle articles have appeared in books and magazines such as Cooking Light, Travel & Leisure, and San Francisco Magazine. 

When she’s not working with clients, she devotes her time to writing fiction, humor, and personal essays which have appeared widely in magazines and books including Seventeen, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, Glimmer Train, Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton), and other places.

She received her M.A. in English and Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, and has taught writing at Davis, the University of San Francisco, and at local bookstores. She founded Independent Bookstore Day in 2014 and served as the program director for eight years. As a committed literary citizen, she is also the co-founder of the Rowland Writers Retreat in Aurora, NY.

Other claims to fame include once starring in a TV commercial for her beloved San Francisco Giants, doing voices for Mark Fiore’s Pulitzer Prize-winning political animations, winning the Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence Award, and creating what might be the world’s only anchovy-based dessert.

She lives in San Francisco with her family.

Here she is competing in the Literary Death Match.

And here’s KFOG’s story about the event.

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