Samantha Puc, a white, femme-presenting person with a shaved head, black face mask, and glasses, looks into the distance. She is wearing a denim jacket with patches and buttons over a yellow sweater.

Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, lesbian writer and streamer whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture. Their writing has been featured on Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., The Beat, The Mary Sue, and elsewhere. Samantha is the co-creator of Fatventure Mag, a zine featuring work by fat creators who love joyful movement but denounce diet culture, and she has an essay published in Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives, a 2021 Reads Rainbow Awards winner and a 2022 AASECT Book Award winner. She is an original cast member of Death2Divinity, the first all-fat, all-queer actual-play Dungeons & Dragons 5e live show, and she is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction at The New School.