Bio
Samantha Warwick (she/her) was born in Montreal, went to high school and university in Vancouver, and currently works between downtown Calgary and a little cabin in the foothills of Treaty 7 Territory.
Her novel Sage Island (Brindle & Glass/Touchwood Editions) was nominated for an Alberta Book Award and named one of Canada’s top ten and most commonly taught texts to use sport in literature (AU Press, 2018). Her essays and poetry have been broadcast on CBC and CKUA radios and appeared in various publications including The Globe & Mail, Dog Eyes Magazine, Event, FASHION and Geist.
Samantha recently joined the team at Freehand Books as National Engagement & Marketing Coordinator. Before this, she directed events, conferences and programming for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta for over a decade, and has interviewed dozens of authors about their books and creative process, including Anthony Doerr, Lynn Coady, Christos Tsiolkas, Jowita Bydlowska and many more. In 2019, Sam received a leadership award from United for Literacy for her dedication toward the cause of literacy in Canada.
She is otherwise in the final throes of completing her second novel with the assistance of her fellow-travelling soul-dog, Lulu—to our knowledge, the only trained and qualified rescue-chi turned service dog (medical alert) in the province. Lulu is a two-time graduate of the Assistance Dogs International equivalency assessment overseen by the Government of Alberta Service Dogs Team.