About Sami Ellis.
Sami Ellis is a queer horror writer from the Carolinas (bofa dem), and co-founder of the Write Team Mentorship Program. You can follow her @themoosef on Twitter, use her writing resource the Agent Adjacent Cheat Sheet, and check out her words in her debut novel Dead Girls Walking (2024) or the upcoming Funerals Are for the Living (2026).
About Sami Books.
Sami’s releases are:
Funerals Are for the Living (Amulet, 2026)
Monsters in Masquerade Anthology (Owlcrate Press, 2025)
Dead Girls Walking (Amulet, 2024)
All These Sunken Souls Anthology (Amberjack Publishing, 2023)
In addition to her own releases, Sami Ellis loves recommending books that she felt close kinship with. Queer stories, Black stories, horror stories, and humor is what she’s built her identity as a writer on. Here are some recommendations that fit that image:
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah