Savannah Brooks earned her MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and her BS in marketing management from Virginia Tech. She spent the first decade of her career working in publishing, first as an editor and then as a literary agent, as well as on multiple literary magazines. After contracting a disabling case of long COVID, she quasi-retired from the field and is now focusing on teaching, which she does through the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and the Flatiron Writing Room and Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville. Previously, she taught at Hamline and the University of Minnesota, and she’s presented on both craft and publishing at more than two dozen writing conferences.

Primarily a short-form writer, her latest short stories are featured in Prime Number Magazine, New Plains Review, and Inscape; her latest essays in Scuba Diving Magazine, the Guardian, and Hobart; and her latest book reviews in Calyx, the Juice, and Oyster River Pages (don’t mind the rogue poem or two). She’s a reviewer for the Independent Book Review, has been nominated for a Best of the Net Award, and is continually putting together at least one essay/short story/poetry collection (these things do tend to run away with her). 

Currently a Big Sister (Big Brothers Big Sisters) and Guardian ad Litem (North Carolina Judiciary Branch), Savannah has volunteered in child advocacy, welfare, and education since she was in high school. She resides in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, with her two black cats, Eggs Benedict and Toaster Strudel, and her fifty-plus houseplants (she's clearly coping well). When she’s not writing or reading, you can find her performing improv, throwing pottery, or cracking a few hits open at karaoke.