Sam Lee is a 28-year-old writer from Canada, but she has called the Dominican Republic home since she was six. At age eight she started an all-girl rock band, Crush, opening for her father's band across island gigs. In her pre-teens she started playing bass and writing her own material, and now tours globally as a bass player/singer in the alt-rock band Still Eighteen. Other passions include snowboarding and making tiny cactuses out of clay for no apparent reason. A Trail of Blood on the Snow is her first published novel.