The Poetry Project

Samuel Ace

Samuel Ace is white, transmasculine, genderqueer. He wears black half-rimmed glasses a light brown cap, and is smiling at the camera with a closed mouth. He also wears a black shirt with a mauve tie.

Samuel Ace is the author of i want to start by saying (Cleveland State University Poetry Center 2024), Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish Books 2019), and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* 2019). He is a recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer's Award, the Firecracker Award, and a multi-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. Recent work can also be found in The Georgia Review, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most (Copper Canyon), The Texas Review, Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies.