Samm Barnes

Sara "Samm" Barnes is a television and comics writer, as well as a television producer.

Though born in Great Britain to Michael and Bridget Barnes, Barnes was raised in Canada, first in Ottawa, then Toronto and finally Vancouver.

Her published comics work includes co-authoring the Doctor Strange miniseries, "Strange Beginnings and Endings" for Marvel Comics, as well The Spectacular Spider-Man. Her Doctor Spectrum miniseries, "Full Spectrum", won the Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer Award at the 2005 Joe Shuster Awards, held at the Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon.

Her work as a television writer includes multiple produced episodes written across two seasons of the Showtime cable TV series Jeremiah. As a co-producer of that series, she also worked in editing, mixing, prep and production. Prior to this, she worked as crew on a variety of television movies and feature films shot in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, including Cats & Dogs, The Whole Shebang, and Mission to Mars.

In 2005, she won the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Writer.