Samantha Kolber
Photo by Emmett Kolber.
Samantha Kolber (she/her) is a writer, poet, mother, and the owner and publisher of Rootstock Publishing. Her poetry chapbook Birth of a Daughter (Kelsay Books, 2020), is a 5-Star Readers’ Favorite, Gold Winner in Realistic Poetry in the Human Relations Indie Book Award, and Poetry Winner in the 2023 San Francisco Book Festival. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Mom Egg Review, Hunger Mountain, Minerva Rising, and PoemCity, among other publications. Her poetry has won recognition including runner-up in the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize at VCFA, and first place in the J. Richard Barry Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of Vermont, among others. She received her MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Goddard College, and completed a post-grad semester in poetry at the Solstice MFA Program at Pine Manor College.
Her hobbies include baking, reading, writing, gardening, and walking her dog Ziggy. She has two children and lives with her family in Montpelier, Vermont.
What She Stole, which began as her thesis project at Goddard College, is her debut novel and it releases in time for her 50th birthday this December!
Samantha’s Books
Samantha Kolber
December 1, 2026
“A well-executed literary coming-of-age novel…”
—Jamie Michele for Readers’ Favorite
5-Star Readers’ Favorite
