Samantha Gorman is a writer and artist who works at the intersection of text, cinema, performance and digital culture. With Danny Cannizzaro she founded the art collective/publishing initiative Tender Claws. Tender Claws’ most recent release is PRY: a hybrid of cinema, game and novel created for mobile iOS (prynovella.com). PRY won the New Media Writing Prize 2015 and was a Future of Storytelling Prize finalist, IGF finalist for “Excellence in Narrative", FWA award recipient and has been featured by apple as a "best new app". Samantha holds a MFA from Brown University in Writing for Digital Media and has taught courses in Performance Art and Digital Literature at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2012, Samantha relocated to LA to pursue her Ph.D. in Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. @samanthaKgorman