SAM MILLS graduated from Oxford University with a BA in English Language and Literature. Since then, she has been a full-time writer. In 2012, Corsair published her debut novel for adults, The Quiddity of Will Self, a quirky literary novel about sex, death, Will Self, and the Great Vowel Shift, which The Sunday Times described as “ingenious, energetic and inventive”. Her memoir about being a carer, The Fragments of My Father, is published by Fourth Estate in 2020. Her next novel, The Watermark, was published by Granta in 2024.
Sam has also written dark crossover thrillers for young adults, published by Faber & Faber, which have been translated into five languages. The Boys Who Saved the World, a satire on the War on Terror, is currently being developed for film. Blackout was nominated for the Carnegie prize, won the Stockport Schools Prize and second place in the Lancashire Book of the Year award, as well as being shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award and the RED prize. Her latest YA novel, It Ends With You, was published under the name SK Wright by Little, Brown in 2018.
She is co-director of independent press Dodo Ink, which champions daring and difficult literary fiction, where the authors she has edited include Seraphina Madsen, Neil Griffiths and Monique Roffey. She also has many years of editorial experience with The Literary Consultancy and Jericho Writers.
- Areas of expertise: literary fiction, memoir, young adult
- Location: London
- Possible meeting place: The British Library; Wimbledon (location tbc)
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