About Samantha Cruz

Samantha Cruz, born January 23, 1991, grew up in Bunnell, Florida on her father’s farm where her father, Jerry, and mother, Maria still reside today. She is the third born of four girls, who still live in and around the area.

As children growing up on the family farm, a lack of neighbors led to endless imaginative adventures amongst the siblings, from building forts in the woods, to creating “cousins’ plays” for the extended family to enjoy.

Samantha’s first book (about an alien she found behind a dumpster) was published through a student publishing project in the second grade. Although her spark for writing didn’t reveal itself until her early 20s, her imagination, creative nature, and silly tendencies never dwindled…