
Samantha Spengler
Research editor
Samantha Spengler is a research editor at WIRED and fact-checks long-form features. She writes the Classics newsletter, curating the best and weirdest stories from WIRED's iconic archive—sign up here. Her writing has appeared in Philadelphia, Washingtonian, and Smithsonian magazines. She was born in Chicago and is a Midwesterner at heart, though she currently lives in Philadelphia.