Samsun Knight is an assistant professor of marketing at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, where he studies quantitative retail marketing and machine learning. He also researches computational text analysis and natural-language processing, with a focus on measuring and understanding narratives.

Separately, Samsun is also a writer and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His debut novel, The Diver, was recently published by University of Iowa Press. For fiction writing-related inquiries, contact Emily Forland at Brandt & Hochman.