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, 2026)

“Every babysitter’s nightmare and every horror reader’s dream.” — Clay McLeod Chapman, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Shiny Happy People

“A stunning, intricately wrought debut that kept me reading late into the night.” — Jihyun Yun, author of And the River Drags Her Down

“This emotionally charged horror taps into racial, cultural, and spiritual identity and will appeal to anyone struggling to find their place, even in their own home.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

SHOP LOCAL
INDIGO | AMAZON (CAN) | AMAZON (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.”