About Me

Samira has been searching for strong female protagonists since the age of two when she insisted the fairy-tale be changed to the far more compelling "Lisa and the Beanstalk".

Her love of creating stories started at the same age, the result of a familial plot to keep her from whinging during long car trips. Throughout her family's six-month journey from Adelaide to Queensland, where they lived in a homemade teepee, the whole family would create the stories of two sister princesses, who went on multiple quests to save their trouble prone Kingdom.

All her strong female protagonist dreams came true when she discovered the Song of the Lioness quartet by Tamora Pierce and the Emily of New Moon books by L.M. Montgomery. Those were the books that made her realise she wanted to be a writer. She studied Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Wollongong where she ignored advice like, "don't write fantasy" but paid attention to the rest.

Samira was shortlisted for the Write It Penguin Fellowship for 2020. She lives on Gadigal land  and teaches language and literacy to students with learning difficulties, while writing in her free-time.