Samantha Faulkner is a Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal woman, from Badu and Moa Islands in the Torres Strait and the Yadhaigana and Wuthathi peoples of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. She is the proud author of Life B’long Ali Drummond: A Life in the Torres Strait, (Aboriginal Studies Press, July 2007) and editor of Pamle: Torres Strait Islanders in Canberra (2018). Her poetry and short stories have been published nationally (in Cordite Poetry Review, Verity La, Canberra Times and Rabbit Journal) and internationally (in Ora Nui: A Collection of Maori and Aboriginal Literature and Narrative Witness: International Writing Program, University of Iowa). She is a member of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Network, MARION (formerly ACT Writers), and the ACT Writers Centre Board. She is the Treasurer of First Nations Australia Writers Network and Us Mob Writing Group.