Visiting Novelist Sam Ashworth

Thursday, April 24, 2025 7:30 AM EDT
Fenwick Library, #2001

Samuel Ashworth has been a bartender, a dancer, and a reporter. He has gutted seafood in the back of Michelin-starred restaurants and assisted with autopsies in a Pittsburgh hospital. His debut novel, The Death and Life of August Sweeney, was published in March 2025. His fiction and nonfiction appear in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Longreads, Eater, Punch, Hazlitt, Gawker, and so on; he is a former columnist for The Rumpus and is an assistant fiction editor at Barrelhouse Magazine. He holds an MFA from George Mason University and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. A native New Yorker, he now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC.