R. J. Joseph
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R. J. Joseph

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R. J. Joseph is a Stoker Award™ winning and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Texas based writer who earned her MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and who must exorcise the demons of her imagination so they don't haunt her being. A life long horror fan and writer of many things, she joyously discovered and embraced writing in the academic arena about three important aspects of of her life: horror, Black femininity, and popular culture. She has had works published in various venues, including the Halloween 2020 issue of Southwest Review and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Series. Her next horror collection, My Monsters Ain't like Yours, will be released in July 2026 by Quill & Crow Publishing. Her nonfiction book, Mothers, Lovers, and Others: An Examination of Black Women in Horror Films, will be released in fall 2027 by Creature Publishing.

When she isn't writing, reading, or teaching, she can usually be found wrangling her huge blended family of one husband, eleven adult sprouts, six grandboo seedlings, and one furry hellbeast who sometimes pretends to be a dog.

R.J. is also an instructor at The Speculative Fiction Academy, a co-host of the Genre Blackademia podcast, and the editor of a novella series with RDSP. Literary Representative: Natasha Mihell, The Rights Factory.

R. J. can be found lurking (and occasionally even peeking out) on various social media platforms from behind @rjacksonjoseph.
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