Samantha Smith is an author from Boston Massachusetts. During quarantine, she taught herself to draw one thing, and one thing only. A Sad Panda. Samantha hopes this to be the first of many books centered around an adorable Panda who is sad for various reasons. As for Samantha, her claims to fame are talking her way into various unearned careers. Thus far she has been a Grammy balloted voice-over artist, an investment analyst, a senior program manager for cloud computing, and now, a soon-to-be panda bear illustrator.