A Cajun Louisiana native, Mant Bares earned her MFA in fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Mant’s fiction has appeared in Beloit Fiction Journal, Porter House Review, and Fugue, and her nonfiction is forthcoming in Washington Square Review. She has been awarded the Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship, the Frederick Busch Prize in Fiction, and the Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction, judged by Carmen Maria Machado. Her poetry, found under the name Samantha Bares, has most recently appeared in Yalobusha Review and is forthcoming in Guesthouse and OxMag. Recently, her novel-in-progress The Trouble You Do Not Name was shortlisted for the Faulkner Society’s William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Now living in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Mant’s work is supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation.
