Birth of a Daughter

Samantha Kolber has received a Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and a Vermont Poetry Society prize, and her manuscript Jewel Tones was a semifinalist with the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry’s 2019 First Book Prize. She received her MFA from Goddard College and completed post-grad work at Pine Manor College’s Solstice MFA Program. Originally from New Jersey, she lives in Montpelier, Vermont, where she coordinates events and marketing for Bear Pond Books and is the Poetry Series Editor at Rootstock Publishing. You can find her poems in many journals, anthologies, and online. Listen to select poems, including “Birth of a Daughter,” at her website, samanthakolber.com.

Paperback: 42 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (August 14, 2020)

Book Awards:
Gold Realistic Poetry Human Relations Indie Book Award 
San Francisco Book Festival 2023 Poetry Winner