Associate Teaching Professor
Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies
Samantha Tetangco Ocena (she/her) is an Associate Teaching Professor in Writing Studies where she teaches creative writing, first-year writing, and professional writing with a focus on sound and audio storytelling, collaborative storytelling, and anti-racist pedagogy. She received her BA from UC Berkeley and her MFA, with Distinction, from the University of New Mexico. Her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, and her first collection of poetry, Hope You Blend In: Studies in Color & Light (Broadstone Books, 2024) was a finalist for the 2023 National Poetry Series Prize.
