About

Sam The Fifth

is a Mexican-American, Michigan-based author whose work explores the ethical consequences of manufactured societies. Her fiction examines how comfort, stability, and technological optimization can obscure moral responsibility.

Her debut novel, The Underground, uses speculative fiction to question whether truth is inherently liberating, or whether societies built on hidden violence depend on collective ignorance to survive.

Her work is influenced by philosophical questions surrounding consent, perception, and ethical responsibility within optimized social systems. Through speculative and dystopian narratives, she examines the moral tension between living peacefully within constructed realities and carrying the burden of knowing what sustains them.
Sam The Fifth