Sami Ellis

Age Category: Young Adult, Adult

Genre: Horror, Romance

MSWL: I specialize in romance, but love ALL stories by and for Black readers. I know I do not write romance lol, but I read it voraciously. No white people is a plus, juicy juicy DRAMA DRAMA a double plus. If you don't write romance, I love speculative books that are authentically grounded in the real world and Black culture.

Any BIPOC that does this I'd love to read it!

Sami Ellis is a queer horror writer inspired by the horrific nature of Black fears and the culture’s relation to the supernatural. Don’t mess with teeth. Never give a stranger your hair. Hexes, Haint Blue, and hearing hymns from the ancestors.

She is also the co-founder of the Write Team Mentorship Program. You can follow her @themoosef on Twitter, use her writing resource, the Agent Adjacent Cheat Sheet, and check out her words in the upcoming Black horror anthology, All These Sunken Souls (2023) and in her debut novel Dead Girls Walking (2024). She is represented by Maeve MacLysaght.