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Samantha Josephs

Samantha Josephs is a trans woman writer whose creative work has included podcasts, video games, apps, and erotica. Her debut novel, Carrying, turns the pressures of performing an idealized life into a darkly comic body-horror story, and arrives with a singular mix of camp, dread, and social observation.

Life information: Living trans woman writer; her publisher describes her as based in Los Angeles after growing up in New York City. No birth date is published in the sources reviewed.

About the author

Samantha Josephs is a trans woman writer whose creative work has included podcasts, video games, apps, and erotica. Her debut novel, Carrying, turns the pressures of performing an idealized life into a darkly comic body-horror story, and arrives with a singular mix of camp, dread, and social observation.

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Carrying · 2026

A trans woman’s carefully constructed domestic life meets an impossible pregnancy in a debut that uses horror, humor, and excess to confront embodiment and control.

G. P. Putnam’s Sons · ISBN 9798217180677

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