Samantha Wilson is a recent graduate of Dalton State College where she obtained a bachelors degree in English. She served on both the newspaper and yearbook staff for seven consecutive semesters. During that time she had publications in both the school's newspaper and the city's local newspaper. Samantha currently writes for Northwest Georgia's Parkinson's Support Group. She is also working on an extensive research piece that focuses on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and the theory of ecocriticism, which she hopes to have published in a literary journal.