Samantha’s fiction focuses on first-person, female voices. Her work explores rage, shame, embarrassment and the significance seemingly small moments can hold.

Her stories have been published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter and Postbox among others and her short plays have been staged by Short Attention Span Theatre and at Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.

In 2021 she won a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award. Her debut novel, Under the Hammer is published by VERVE Books in March 2026.