Samuel Amadon has received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Columbia University's MFA program and the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg. His poems and reviews have appeared or will appear in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Borderlands, the Canary, Forklift, Ohio, Fourteen Hills, La Petite Zine, LIT, Massachusetts Review, mot juste, New England Review, No Tell Motel, Notre Dame Review, Octopus, Painted Bride Quarterly, Typo, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Verse, Washington Square, and the Western Humanities Review.