Samantha Greene Woodruff is the author of two #1 Amazon bestselling historical fiction novels, The Lobotomist’s Wife and The Trade Off. Sam has a BA in history from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. She spent fifteen years at Viacom’s Nickelodeon before leaving to parent her two young children. Sam’s writing has appeared in Newsweek, Writer’s Digest, Female First, LitHub, Writer’s Read, and more. Sam was also a contributor to the USA Today bestselling anthology On Being Jewish Now edited by Zibby Owens. Woodruff lives in southern Connecticut with her husband, two children, two dogs, and a small reptile zoo.