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Hi! I’m Samantha Garner, a mixed-race Canadian fantasy author. My work draws from Filipino and Finnish history, folklore, and culture to explore belonging in the in-between. My debut novel The Quiet is Loud was shortlisted for the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.
I write about outsider characters finding self-definition through small rebellion. My work also features: Explorations of identity and character; nuanced relationships; Filipino and Finnish/Nordic culture; and lovingly-written food descriptions.
