Samantha Stier is a writer, represented by Cari Foulk of the Tribe Literary Agency. She writes novels and short stories, mainly for teens and young adults.

Some of her favorite authors are J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Sarah Dessen, Caroline B. Cooney, Nick Hornby, Walter Mosley, Winslow Eliot, Roald Dahl, Jennifer Belle, Jeffery Deaver, Sydney Sheldon, Enid Blyton, and Wendelin Van Draanen, as well as lots from classic fiction, like Margaret Mitchell, Jane Austen, Daphne Du Maurier, Dodie Smith, and Peter O’Donnell (aka Madeleine Brent).

In addition to writing fiction, she also studies film and screenwriting. She is fluent in Final Cut Pro editing software, and also knowledgeable in all computer systems and graphics software, including InDesign and Adobe Photoshop. She has written two feature screenplays.

She has interned with a producer at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles and with a Director of Photography  at Pacific Focus in Honolulu, and worked for a prominent filmmaker in Hawaii on various projects, including commercials, shorts, features, editing and screenwriting. Her writer, director, cinematographer, and editor credits include many film projects, including indie features, shorts, commercials, public service announcements, school projects, music videos, and documentaries.

She is currently working on the Ramsey Rade Thrillers, a series of young adult novels, as well as getting her film degree from California State University, Long Beach.