Biography
Born in Hampshire, Sam Baker studied politics at Birmingham University. Sam has edited some of the UK's biggest magazines. After successfully re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of Company. She was also editor of Cosmopolitan in the UK and is now editor-in-chief of Red. She has a grown-up stepson and lives between Winchester, Hampshire and central London with her husband the award-winning novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood.