When she accepted the internship at The Alonso Research Center for Infectious Diseases, Ella thought she’d be studying the bird-flu, or something standard. A brain-eating-virus, her mysterious witchy boss, and her ex-girlfriend’s corpse have other plans for her. Samantha Rose Panepinto - Sam is a writing teacher in Brooklyn, NY, where she lives with her partner and two beautiful, inconsiderate cats. Her YA fiction is inspired by the ways young people take back their power and wreak havoc on attempts to keep them in line. Her work centers queer teens with big voices, navigating situations both familiar and far-off. Sam’s short fiction has been featured in Queers in Space, the Image OutWrite literary journal, and her nonfiction on Autostraddle. Sam is a participant in the 2021 Tin House YA Fiction Workshop, with mentor Mason Deaver.

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