Sam Stewart was born in Zambia, grew up in South Africa and now lives in England with her two children. She has been fascinated by fire since a very early age when she accidentally set her bedroom alight with her sister in it. (Her sister escaped unscathed, in case you were wondering!)
Sam works at HarperCollins Children’s Books UK, which doesn’t feel like real work when editing other people’s brilliant books, and her nights are spent writing her own.