Samantha Silva is the author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol (2017), Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft (2021), both from Flatiron Books, and Sometime This Century, coming June 2026 from HarperCollins. As a screenwriter, she's sold projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema. Her short fiction and essays appear in One Story, The New York Times and LitHub. She adapted Mr. Dickens and His Carol for the stage as a commission by Seattle Repertory Theater, where it premiered in December 2022.

She's a graduate of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and is currently based in Idaho.