R. J. Joseph is an award winning, Stoker™ and Shirley Jackson awards nominated, Texas based academic and creative writer/editor/professor 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 lifelong horror fan and writer of many things, she joyously discovered and embraced writing in the academic arena about three important aspects 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 horror collection, Hell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted, was released in August 2022 by The Seventh Terrace.

When she isn't writing, reading, or teaching, she can usually be found wrangling her huge blended family of one husband, five adult sprouts, six teenaged sproutlings, five 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. Film/TV rep: Karmen Wells, 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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