Sam Irwin

Before he discovered the backspace/delete key on his computer and began writing, Sam was a:

1.      history teacher
2.      used car salesman
3.      grocery store manager
4.      crawfish buyer
5.      honky tonk fiduciary (the notorious Corner Bar in Breaux Bridge)
6.      plantation home tour guide
7.      waiter
8.      failed pawnbroker
9.      owner of the legendary Paradise Records at the north gates of LSU

In addition to Country Roads, his work has appeared in Offbeat, 225, Louisiana Film and Video, The Advocate, Teche News and House and Home.

His fiction has been published by Dead Mule, Tom's Voice, Gulf Coast Writers Anthology, Spillway Review, Long Story Short, Gris Gris Rouge, Country Roads, Cape Fear Crime Festival Chapbook, Murder in the Wind Anthology, Love is in the Wind Anthology and the Nicholls State Jubilee Anthology.

Sam’s blog, LANote, may be found at LANote.org. His e-mail is si@samirwin.net.