Samantha Silva is an author and screenwriter based in Idaho. Her debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, was published in 2017 by Flatiron Books/Macmillan. Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft will be published in May 2021. Over her career, Silva's sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema. She directed a film adaptation of her short story, The Big Burn, which won the 1 Potato Short Screenplay Competition at the 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival. Her short story, Leo in Venice, appeared in the September 2019 issue of ONE STORY. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, she's lived in London, Bologna, and Rome, is an avid Italophile and a forever Dickens devotee.