Gunk - Saba Sams

SABA SAMS was raised in Brighton and now lives in London. She was selected for Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her short story collection Send Nudes was awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for the University of Swansea International Dylan Thomas Prize 2023. The story Blue 4eva from the collection was awarded the BBC National Short Story Award. Send Nudes was selected as a book of the year by The Guardian, Stylist, Vogue, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Evening Standard, Irish Independent, AnOther, Foyles, and bookshop.org, and a Sunday Times paperback of the year in 2023.