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Samuel Eddington (born March 24, 1980 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American librarian and writer.

Early life
Eddington was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but spent most of his childhood in Aurora, Colorado.

He graduated with a B.A. in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Houston in 2003. He then received his Master of Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University in 2007.

Writing
While studying at the University of Houston, Eddington won the 2002 Howard Moss Poetry Prize, as well as the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Poetry Prize (undergraduate division). Since then, his poetry has appeared in such publications as Quercus Review, Pebble Lake Review, and Lines + Stars.

The Review Review, in a discussion of the poem "Great Basin," noted Eddington's ability to make "words sound pretty together," while also criticizing the poem for failing to leave "enough of an impact on the reader."

In 2015, Eddington produced The Hedgehoggiary, a nonfiction book about Eddington's pet hedgehogs, as well as other hedgehogs and the larger community of hedgehog enthusiasts. A review in the Hedgehog Welfare Society Newsletter hailed it as a "marvelous read."