Nicholas Samaras was born and raised in the village of Foxton, eight miles south of Cambridge, England. He was later kidnapped by his parents and forced to live in America where he is working hard to write his way back home to Foxton. His first book of poetry, Hands of the Saddlemaker, won The Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.

Nicholas Samaras's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.