John Hornor Jacobs is an award-winning author of genre-bending adult and YA fiction, a screenwriter, and co-creator of the (forthcoming) narrative podcast, The Listening Station. His first novel, Southern Gods, was a Bram Stoker finalist and winner the Darrell Award. He was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award for his collection, A Lush and Seething Hell which has been optioned for television.