Samantha Mills is the award-winning author of the novel The Wings Upon Her Back, and the short stories “Rabbit Test,” “Strange Waters,” “Adrianna in Pomegranate,” and “Kiki Hernandez Beats the Devil,” among others. She won the Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Sturgeon Award for “Rabbit Test.”

She has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, made the Locus Recommended Reading List and the BSFA long list multiple times, and was included in the best-of anthologies The New Voices of Science Fiction and The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2023. Her stories have appeared in numerous venues, including Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and Daily SF, with her novels being published by Tachyon.

She graduated from the University of Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Pre- and Early Modern Literature, and received a Master’s in Information and Library Science from San Jose State University. She is a trained archivist specializing in primary documents, with a particular focus on helping local historical societies and research libraries preserve and manage their collections.

She currently lives in California with her family and cats.