RJ Joseph

Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is an award winning, Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Texas based academic and creative writer/professor/editor whose writing regularly focuses on the intersections of gender and race in the horror and romance genres and popular culture. She has had works published in various applauded venues, including two fiction anthologies of Black, female horror writers, Sycorax's Daughters, and Black Magic Women, as well as the 2020 Halloween issue of Southwest Review and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Series. Her horror short story collection, Hell Hath No Sorrow like a Woman Haunted, was published in August 2022 by The Seventh Terrace. Rhonda is also an instructor at The Speculative Fiction Academy and the co-host of the Genre Blackademia podcast. She is also working with Raw Dog Screaming Press on editing a new novella line.

When she isn't writing, reading, or teaching, she can usually be found wrangling her huge blended family of one husband, six adult sprouts, four college aged sproutlings, one high school senior sproutling, five grandboo seedlings, and one furry hellbeast vine who sometimes pretends to be a dog.

She occasionally peeks out on social media platforms, you can find all her links on her Linktree page.

Interview recorded on 2024-06-30.