Sami is an award winning children’s book author and illustrator and is currently based in Newcastle, NSW. 

She has released three books in theIllustrated Encyclopaedia series and has just released her fourth book (the first of a new of a new series), called How We Came To Be - Surprising Sea Creatures,allpublished by Lothian - Hachette Australia. 

With a bachelor of Natural History Illustration (Honours) at UoN, she is trained in scientific illustration and loves to try new mediums and techniques, as she never knows what style she might fall in love with next. She appreciates all animals, especially the ones that can be defined as weird, wonderful or even ugly!