Samuel ("Sam") Green (born 1948) is an American poet and bookbinder.
He spent four years in the Coast Guard, serving in Antarctica and South Vietnam.
Since 1982, Green has lived off the grid on Waldron Island in a log house he built himself, running Brooding Heron Press with his wife Sally.
They produce finely printed and bound volumes of verse by poets such as Denise Levertov, Ted Kooser, John Haines, Donald Hall, James Laughlin, Jane Hirshfield, and Hayden Carruth, among many others.
2008 Washington State Book Award for Poetry (for The Grace of Necessity).
Artist Trust Fellowship in Literature (2011) Doctor of Humane Letters (Honorary) from Seattle University, 2018 [1]