Samuel Granoff holds a PhD in English literature from Florida State University, as well as degrees from Columbia University, Duke University, and the University of San Francisco (the latter two at which he played baseball). Last year, he served as a Fulbright Fellow through the Université Paris-Saclay, researching for a novel set during the First World War. He has previously taught abroad with Semester at Sea, covering ten countries in one hundred days, and played professional baseball overseas.