Sigal Samuel is an award-winning novelist, journalist, essayist, and playwright. Currently a Senior Reporter at Vox and Co-Host of Vox’s Future Perfect podcast, she previously worked as Religion Editor at The Atlantic, Opinion Editor at the Forward, and Associate Editor at the Daily Beast. She has also published work in BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Refinery 29, The Walrus, and other outlets. She has appeared on NPR, BBC, and CBC. Her six plays have been produced in theaters from Vancouver to New York.
Sigal’s children’s book, Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi, won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the US. School Library Journal and Tablet Magazine both named it a best book of 2021. It made the CCBC Choices List as well as the ALSC Notable Children’s Books List.
The Mystics of Mile End, Sigal’s debut novel, won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the Alberta Book Publishing Award in 2016. It was also nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Sigal earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and her BA in Philosophy from McGill University. Originally from Montreal, she now lives in Washington, DC.
