Greenwood, Samantha grew up on the rocky shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota, where foghorns and used-bookstore paperbacks taught her to love quiet, steady stories. She earned a BA in English from Carleton College and an MFA from the University of Oregon, then worked as an event coordinator and later a youth-services librarian on the Oregon coast. Her fiction blends small-town warmth, wry humor, and the sensory details of waterfront life. She now lives in Traverse City, Michigan, with a rescue beagle and too many sea-glass jars, and volunteers with literacy nonprofits when she isn't hunting for the best cinnamon roll on any given pier.
