Welcome to Sam Baker’s website

Sam Baker grew up in Hampshire and after a degree in politics at Birmingham University became a journalist. She has edited some of the UK’s biggest magazines, including Just Seventeen, Company, Cosmopolitan and Red. In 2015 she co-founded The Pool with Lauren Laverne.

She is a writer, broadcaster, and event host.

Sam is married to the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood and lives in Edinburgh.