Silvia Saunders is a British-Italian novelist who has spoken about her identity being a blend of both her English and Italian upbringing. She published her debut novel, Homesick, in 2025.
In 2023, Saunders won the Comedy Women in Print Prize for Unpublished Comedy Novel for her 2025 debut, Homesick. She returned two years later as a judge for the Self-Published category.
Homesick was published August 28, 2025, by HarperCollins. Prior to release, Cosmopolitan named the novel among "the 25 books [they] can't wait to read in 2025".