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Bio | 34 words
Samantha Garner is the author of The Quiet is Loud, shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. A Canadian of mixed Filipino-Finnish background, her character-driven fantasy novels explore themes of identity and belonging.
Bio | 72 words
Samantha Garner is the author of The Quiet is Loud, shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. A Canadian of mixed Filipino-Finnish background, her character-driven fantasy novels explore themes of identity and belonging. When not writing, Samantha can be found daydreaming in a video game or boring a loved one with the latest historical fact she’s learned.
She can be found online at samanthagarner.ca and on Instagram and Twitter at @samanthakgarner.
Bio | 95 words
Samantha Garner is the author of The Quiet is Loud, published by Invisible Publishing and shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. A Canadian of mixed Filipino-Finnish background, her character-driven fantasy novels explore themes of identity and belonging.
When not writing, Samantha can be found daydreaming in a video game or boring a loved one with the latest historical fact she’s learned. She’s also created several zines, and has been blogging since the Geocities glory days of the late ’90s. She can be found online at samanthagarner.ca and on Instagram and Twitter at @samanthakgarner.
Interviews, Etc.
- Interview with Augur Magazine for AugurCon 2022
- Carol Shields Prize – Women Reading Women
- Reading of my poem “When You Don’t See Me” as part of a special Quarantine Review episode of Howl on CIUT 89.5FM, September 28, 2021
- Open Book Writer in Residence – June 2021
- 12 or 20 questions with rob mclennan
- Writers on Writing with Katie Li
- Interview with Maria Bolaños, Marías at Sampaguitas
- My writing routine at my (small press) writing day by rob mclennan
Interviews related to The Quiet is Loud can be found here.
My agent is Kelvin Kong at K2 Literary. For media inquiries and review copies of The Quiet is Loud, please contact Invisible Publishing.