SamiJo is a first-class shenanigator, decorated coddiwompler, narrator, creator, and author of The Abney Kelly series and The Haunt (coming October 8th). She also has a short story, One Samhain Night, published in the UJ Plainsong literary journal in April 2024, and a poem, The Bottom, published in Great Plains Medley, a collection of prose and poetry by North Dakota writers. She lives in North Dakota with her husband (Andy), dogs (Puck, Enzo, and Bailey), and three cats (Horus, Anubis, and Snow Kitty). In her spare time, she reads, writes, listens to audiobooks, plays video games, and enjoys D&D on the weekends. On a more serious note, writing is everything to SamiJo. As a sickly child, she often spent her time indoors or at the hospital before they figured out she had asthma. At that time, books were her best friends. Without fairy tales, the Dear America Books, and authors like Diana Wynne Jones, Jim Sukach, Anne Martin, and Richard Peck, she would have been unthinkably lonely. She aims to write stories that give people a much-needed escape from reality and create places to go when getting out the front door is too much to bear.