Sam van Zweden is a Melbourne-based freelance writer. She has held a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship (2015) and been writer-in-residence at RMIT Urban Writing House (2016).
The online editor for Writers Bloc from 2013 to 2015, she has also worked as a book reviewer for The Big Issue, and served in various roles with Kill Your Darlings, Melbourne Writers' Festival, and Overload Poetry Festival.
In 2019, she won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award for her creative non-fiction manuscript Eating with My Mouth Open.