Samuel A. Autman’s work has appeared in Brevity, Bellevue Literary Review, Parnorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, and many other literary magazines and essay collections. A faculty member at DePauw University, he’s adapting his essay, “A Dash of Pepper in the Snow”— his experiences as a Black journalist in Salt Lake City in the early 1990s — into a fictionalized TV pilot. Follow him on Substack, Bluesky or Instagram @samuelautman or at https://www.samuelautman.com/. You can view more of Samuel’s work here: A Long Walk.