Samantha-Ellen Bound

Samantha-Ellen Bound is a writer, editor and children's author. From humble beginnings as an eight-year old writing Goosebumps rip-offs, she now has many years experience working with books - as a bookseller at Top Titles, reviewer, editor, production and marketing coordinator, in education, you name it!

A huge supporter of #LoveOzMG, Samantha-Ellen has been shortlisted for numerous short story awards, including most recently the Peter Carey and Write Around the Murray short story awards. She was also shortlisted for the Vogel Prize in 2018 and been a recipient of a May Gibbs Creative Time Fellowship. Samantha-Ellen was born in Tasmania but now lives in Mordialloc, Melbourne.