Samantha Colicchio is a writer and producer. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, she began her career in independent film, appearing in and producing shorts and features in New York and Los Angeles. Her work has since moved behind the camera and onto the page: she has written treatments and scripts, cast talent, and directed on set and in the edit for national television commercials, brand films, and documentary projects. She works as a creative director and is a published essayist, a Yaddo Fellow, and a finalist for the Sewanee Review's nonfiction prize.