Sam Moe’s fiction has appeared in Bending Genres, Prairie Schooner, Brink Literary, Peatsmoke Magazine, and others. Her newest short story collection is the winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize, forthcoming from Zero Street Press (University of Nebraska) in June 2027. She has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Longleaf Writer’s Conference, and the Key West Literary Seminar. She has also received residencies at VCCA, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Château d’Orquevaux. Originally from Connecticut, she is currently based in Alabama, where she works as an Assistant Professor teaching creative writing. www.samannemoe.com | On IG: @SamAnneMoe

PRAISE FOR I MIGHT TRUST YOU

“I Might Trust You showcases Sam Moe’s endlessly inventive voice. Her prose glitters, and her images—vividly painting sunflowers, seances, false moons, fillet knives, cat collars, cut candles, and so much more—gleam. In these pages, we encounter the many shapes of loss, loneliness, longing, and love. Throughout, we feel as if we are in the presence of a storyteller who knows the secrets of our beautiful and broken world. This is a fantastic collection.”

—Bradley Sides, author of Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood

“Sam Moe’s I Might Trust You is an act of literary alchemy—unraveling like a fever dream, where memory slips into myth and language pulses with intimacy, longing, and the quiet ache of transformation. This is a book that does not merely tell a story; it moves like an incantation, revealing love and loss in fragments that shimmer at the edges of consciousness, both wound and salve at once.

Moe’s writing is hypnotic and immersive, evoking through sensory detail the warmth of a kitchen where devotion is folded into food; the sea thrumming with promises; the ghost of a lover dissolving into myth. Each piece feels like something remembered and half-forgotten, something whispered in the dark.

Lyrical, haunting, and breathtaking in its depth, I Might Trust You is a book that doesn’t simply invite you in—it enchants you.

Moe’s work reads prismatic and renders you dizzy in its inventiveness. Moe might leave you speechless.”

—C. Heyne, author of my room and other wombs