Writing

Cover of a book, a humaniod monster with no eyes or nose looms out of a mirror, its dark hair drifting upwards and escaping the frame, as a teenage girl with dark hair and pale skin watches, terrified. The text reads, A GOOD DAUGHTER'S GHOST by Sam Wilket.

a good daughter’s ghost

YA PARANORMAL HORROR
Annick Press, forthcoming Oct 6, 2026.

Rachel Bei refuses to believe in ghosts like her medium mom. But when a seemingly perfect babysitting gig turns creepy, then gruesome, she’s forced to reconsider.

Drawing on Chinese folklore, this darkly immersive novel confronts family secrets, the audacity of whiteness, and the ghosts we carry with us.

lo mai gai

POETRY
Poems In Passage, 2026.

Poems in Passage is a public art project that puts poetry on public transit across the Toronto.

LO MAI GAI, was one of fourteen poems that replaced ads in TTC subways, buses, and streetcars as part of Season 3.

Text of the poem Lo Mai Gai by Sam Wilket

A SHAPESHIFTER’S HAIR

CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Coven of the East: Reclaiming Asian Women’s Magical Histories. Ghastly Goings-On Press, 2025.

“My mother’s magic was glamour. When I was small, I would sit outside the open bathroom door and watch as she performed her morning ritual at the alter of our florescent-lit mirror.”

SPLINTER

SHORT FICTION
Tahoma Literary Review, Issue 22, Spring 2022.

“A splinter stuck in my palm like a tooth. I watched a red line trail from the wound, down my wrist, away from the jagged arm of the cross I’d just snapped in half. I couldn’t stop a laugh from bubbling out, and that got my mother going again.”