Sigal Samuel is a Staff Writer for Vox​’s ​“Future Per­fect.” She writes about arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, neu­ro­science, ethics, and the inter­sec­tion of tech­nol­o­gy and reli­gion. Pre­vi­ous­ly, she was the Reli­gion Edi­tor at The Atlantic. Her award-win­ning jour­nal­ism has also been pub­lished in out­lets like Buz­zFeed, The Dai­ly Beast, The Rum­pus, and Elec­tric Lit­er­a­ture. She has appeared on NPR, BBC, and CBC. Sigal’s nov­el, The Mys­tics of Mile End, tells the sto­ry of a dys­func­tion­al fam­i­ly deal­ing with mys­ti­cism, mad­ness, and math­e­mat­ics in Mon­tre­al. It was nom­i­nat­ed for the Inter­na­tion­al Dublin Lit­er­ary Award and won a Cana­di­an Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Award. Sigal earned her MFA in Cre­ative Writ­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia and her BA in Phi­los­o­phy from McGill University.