Samantha Roberts

Samantha Roberts is a writer and yoga teacher living with her wife and son on Darug country. With a Masters of Research in women’s writing and a creative practice formed in the interstices of mothering, her research interests span gender, sexuality, the relationship between writing and the body, and the ways these topics intersect with the love—and labour—of writing.

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Works By Samantha Roberts

These Nights Belong to Us
Elizabeth Jolley wrote after the children were in bed. Toni Morrison and Sylvia Plath did their writing before dawn. Women’s night writing is a practice born of necessity, but Samantha Roberts uncovers the freedoms of composing in the dark.
2 Oct. 2026