Barbara (Boudon) Samanta's short story “Chimbote” won the Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction in 2017. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in English Literature from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University and has an MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green State University. She produced Richard Quebral's short film, "The Delivery;"​ and is playwright of "Erin the Green Baron,"​ staged at the iconic Manhattan Theatre Source in NYC’s West Village. She has worked variously as a teacher, proofreader, editor, playwright, translator and copywriter at Bowling Green State University (USA); Escuela Bilingüe José Vasconcelos (Mexico); Banco Bice (Chile); Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Random House ePubs and the Renaissance Chamber Collaborative (NYC). She currently teaches Shakespeare, British Literature, and AP Literature at Christ the King Catholic High School in Huntersville, North Carolina.