Samuel Burrows was born in 1978 in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and grew up roaming the gravel bars of the White River. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri and spent a decade reporting for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the Times-Picayune, where his features on flood recovery and working-waterfront towns earned regional press honors. After returning to the Ozarks, he guided drift boats in spring and taught introductory nonfiction at a community college in Batesville. His essays have appeared in the Oxford American, High Country News, and small river journals. He lives in Fayetteville with his partner and two hounds, volunteers with Ozark Water Watch, and keeps a patched green tackle box in the truck.
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