About Liselle Sambury
Born 1991. Liselle Sambury is a Canadian novelist and writer.
Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian Canadian writer of young adult fantasy literature, whose debut novel Blood Like Magic was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.
Biography A native of Toronto, Ontario, Sambury majored in linguistics and also took creative writing courses at Queen's University. Blood Like Magic was published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster. She currently resides in Timmins, a city which she used as a setting in her novel Delicious Monsters.
She received nominations for the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award in 2022 for Blood Like Magic, and in 2024 for Delicious Monsters.
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