Sami Ellis
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.
You can support her by following her @themoosef on Twitter, checking out her work as the the co-founder of the Write Team Mentorship Program, using her writing resource, the Agent Adjacent Cheat Sheet, and checking out her words in the upcoming Black horror anthology, All These Sunken Souls (2023) and in her debut novel Dead Girls Walking (2024).
All These Sunken Souls (Chicago Review Press, 2023)
Young Adult Anthology
Circe Moskowitz ed.'s ALL THESE SUNKEN SOULS, pitched as a cross between SLASHER GIRLS & MONSTER BOYS and Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone, a collection of Black horror stories that explores and dives deep into the genre from the creative minds of both debut and established Black writers, including Kalynn Bayron, Ryan Douglass, Sami Ellis, Brent Lambert, Ashia Monet, Linda Raquel Nieves Perez, Joel Rochester, Liselle Sambury, and Joelle Wellington, to Alicia Sparrow at Chicago Review Press, for publication in fall 2023, by Natascha Morris at The Tobias Literary Agency (world).
Dead Girls Walking (Amulet, 2024)
Young Adult Horror
Sami Ellis's DEAD GIRLS WALKING, pitched as a fresh take on camp horror, about a serial killer's daughter determined to absolve him of her mother's murder; the only things keeping her from searching for clues in the woods where he used to hunt are her counselor duties at the queer all-girls sleepaway camp that's leasing the land—and the copycat killer stalking the girls, to Emily Daluga at Amulet, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2024, by Maeve MacLysaght at Copps Literary Services (world English).