Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian Canadian writer of young adult fantasy literature, whose debut novel '' Blood Like Magic'' was a shortlisted finalist for the

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at the

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, Sambury majored in Linguistics and also took creative writing courses at Queen's University. '' Blood Like Magic'' was published in 2021 by

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. She currently resides in

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, a city which she has incorporated as a setting in her forthcoming novel Delicious Monsters.Simon & Schuster

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* Living people 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian women novelists Canadian fantasy writers Canadian writers of young adult literature Black Canadian writers Black Canadian women writers Writers from Timmins Writers from Toronto Queen's University at Kingston alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-writer-stub