Samantha Baines
Author
Samantha Baines is a deaf author, disability advocate, actor (Hank Zipzer, So Awkward, Father Brown) and ambassador for the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, Stagetext and NSPCC. She wrote the award-winning children’s book Harriet vs the Galaxy, as well as the award-nominated The Night the Moon Went Out. Samantha covers disability stories for BBC programs including The One Show and Radio 4, and has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, and The Radio Times. For further details, visit: https://www.samanthabaines.com/