Sam Maggs is a New York Times Bestselling Author of books, comics, and video games. Her novels include Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars and The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope; she’s written for games like Call of Duty: Vanguard, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and Marvel’s Spider-Man; and her comics and graphic novels include Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, and Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas. She is also an on-air host for networks like Nerdist. A Canadian in Los Angeles, she misses Coffee Crisp and bagged milk.
An authority on women in pop culture, Sam has spoken or written about the topic for, among others, the New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Vulture, NPR, Syfy, The Verge, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire, PC Gamer, The Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly. She’s an active and vocal proponent for equality behind-the-scenes in video games and comics. Her books have received praise from the ALA, OLA, SLJ, Indie NextList, GoodReads, YALSA, and more. If you’re up for the lecture, ask her sometime about how her MA in Victorian Literature has been surprisingly applicable to her current work.
Sam is also, occasionally, a host and on-air personality, recognizable as the once-host of the Cineplex pre-show (in front of six million Canadians a month), and a frequent pop culture commentator on the Nerdist, Dropout, Teletoon, MTV Canada, the CBC, and more. She’s moderated or appeared on panels all over the world, at events like San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, Emerald City Comicon, YALLWest, MCM London, Fan Expo Canada, and Dutch Comic Con, speaking with the casts of shows like Stranger Things, Daredevil, and Agent Carter. Previous Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat once berated her to her face. She made it!
Sam’s parents saw Star Wars: A New Hope twenty-four times in theaters when it first came out and used to keep her home from school to marathon the Indiana Jones trilogy, so it’s really not her fault that she turned out the way she did. She was named after Bewitched‘s Samantha Stephens and collects original art of awesome fictional witches. Sam mostly loves Dungeons & Dragons, K-skincare, tarot, nineteenth-century science texts, Ami Mizuno, Stargate, Tamora Pierce books, and the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack.
Sam is located in Los Angeles. Please click here for interviews, appearance requests, or work inquiries.