Liselle Sambury

Liselle Sambury is a Canadian-Trinidadian author from Ontario who likes to refer to her work as fantasy situations with messy black girls. The author was brought up in Toronto which is the setting for “Blood Like Magic” her debut novel.She was the only child in a very large household full of grandparents and cousins that altogether comprised nine people. She found a lot of comfort growing up in the blended family even though there were also moments of high drama. There were regular arguments and clashes with family members and things could sometimes get out of hand.It was while growing up that she came to acknowledge that there is no perfect family and that many have skeletons in the closet that the adults often try to hide from the children. There will be personalities that could never get along and sometimes a family has to deal with tragic things.In writing her debut novel, she wanted to express the complex nature of these relationships and show that not everything is black and white. “Blood Like Magic,” her bestselling debut novel, was published in 2021.