Sam Bully-Thomas is poet and screenwriter.

Born in Binghamton, New York, Sam grew up an expat kid attending nine schools in seven countries by 12th grade (Iran, Kuwait, Malawi, RSA, USA, Dominica). She’s worked in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Alaska, Ireland, England, Miami, Athens, and most recently, Atlanta, Georgia.

Sam’s poems have appeared in Sons & Daugthers, Threepenny Review, S/S/Y/K, Naugatuck Review, The Harlequin and other publications in the UK, USA, Ireland. Her work has been selected for workshops with Tin House, Kentucky Women Writers Conference and Skidmore. Cane is Sam Bully-Thomas’ first collection of poetry published by Wundor Editions, London.

Her screenplays have won recognition, awards and commissions from in the US and UK.

Sam read for her Master's at the University of Oxford, England. She also earned another Master’s from Waterford Institute of Technology, for her research and writing on the history of sugar. While in Ireland she studied at the storied Poets House of Donegal, Ireland.