Sigal Samuel

Sigal Samuel’s debut novel, THE MYSTICS OF MILE END, tells the story of a dysfunctional Jewish family with a dangerous mystical obsession. It’s out with Freehand Books in Canada and forthcoming from HarperCollins in the U.S. (October 2015).

A writer and editor for The Forward, Sigal previously served as senior editor at The Daily Beast. She contributes articles, columns, and reviews on Jewish culture and Middle Eastern politics. In 2015, she chronicled her search for her family’s Kabbalistic secret society in India.

Sigal’s fiction and journalism have appeared in The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, The Forward, Tablet, Haaretz, Feministing, The Walrus, Event, Descant, Grain, Prairie Fire, Room, Matrix, This Magazine, and Plenitude, among other publications. Her writing was picked up by New York Magazine in 2013, and was featured at the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival in 2010 and 2015.

She has written and produced six plays in Montreal, Vancouver, and New York. In 2011, Hebrew won Solo Collective Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights’ Competition, and Onomatopoeia won The Cultch’s Young Playwrights’ Competition.

Sigal received her BA in Philosophy from McGill University and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Originally from Montreal, she currently lives in Brooklyn. She is represented by Samantha Haywood of Transatlantic Agency.