Patrik Sampler‘s writing has appeared in a variety of publications including The Guardian, The Millions, and The Scofield. He has been a contributing editor for the surrealist journal Peculiar Mormyrid, and devoted much of a postgraduate degree to the late-career work of Abe Kobo. Sampler’s climate change novel, The Ocean Container, was published in 2017 by Ninebark Press. His next novel, Naked Defiance, will be published in 2023 by New Star Books.