Samuel Te Kani (Ngāpuhi) is a full-time sexpert and part-time generator of critical essays and fiction ranging from innocuous to blasphemous. Host of the wildly popular Rats in the Gutter alongside Johanna Cosgrove, and video series Sex with Sam and Sam Tries Stuff, he is a pop culture authority and public face for the Ending HIV campaign. His writing has been published by a range of platforms including The Spinoff, The Pantograph Punch, Toi Māori Aotearoa, Re: News, and Art New Zealand.

Daddy was Samuel Te Kani first novella published by Parasite, and launched at Strange Goods on 21 October 2020.