Sam Beckbessinger is the bestselling author of Manage Your Money Like a F-cking Grownup, sold in five countries. She was one of the writers on Serial Box's and Marvel's Jessica Jones: Playing With Fire serialised novel. She's also written several episodes for animated kids' TV show, Team Jay, and the comedy series Jungle Beat, which has been broadcast in over 180 countries. Sam was a Mandela Washington Fellow for Young African Leaders at Yale University in 2014, and is a partner and co-founder of two financial technology businesses. Sam was named one of the Observer's Best Debut Novelists of 2026, and her first novel, Femme Feral, will be out in the UK and US in April. She is South African, but now lives in the English countryside with her cat, Sir Digby Chicken Caeasar III, who is an idiot.
