Samantha Renee Ratcliffe
MFA Candidate
Graduate Instructor
Samantha Renee Ratcliffe is a second-year MFA candidate in poetry and a graduate assistant at the University of Kentucky. Before graduate school, she taught high school English for over four years. She is the winner of the 2025 Kings Library Press Broadside Contest and the 2025 Hindman School Oak Ledge Writing Residency.