John Hornor Jacobs is the award-winning author of Southern Gods, This Dark Earth, the young adult Incarcerado series, The Incorruptibles trilogy, and A Lush and Seething Hell. His fiction and essays have appeared in Playboy Magazine, Huffington Post, and CBSWeekly. He’s been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award, Bram Stoker Award, the Gemmell Award, the Morningstar, and World Fantasy Awards. Jacobs resides in the American South and spends his free time when not working on his next book thinking about working on his next book.