Samantha Harvey is an English author. She completed the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA course in 2005, and has also completed a postgraduate course in philosophy and a PhD in Creative Writing. Her first novel is The Wilderness, a book about the unravelling effect of Alzheimer's disease. Her second novel, All Is Song, is a novel about moral and filial duty, and about the choice between questioning and conforming. Her third novel, Dear Thief, is a long letter from a woman to her absent friend, detailing the emotional fallout of a love triangle. It was published on 25th September 2014 by Jonathan Cape Her short stories have appeared in Granta Magazine and on BBC Radio 4. In 2010 she was named one of the 12 best new British novelists by The Culture Show. She is a tutor on the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a member of the Academy for the Folio Prize. 

January 1st, 1975 in Kent (Age 49)