Samantha Jayne Allen `11 has a BA in English/Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College and an MFA in fiction from Texas State University. Her writing has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Common, and Electric Literature. Raised in small towns in Texas and California, she now lives with her husband in Atlanta. She is the author of recently published PAY DIRT ROAD, winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. 

As with all all other Writers' Festival programming, this event is free and all are welcome to attend.