Rhonda Jackson Garcia AKA RJ Joseph

Welcome to the premiere horror literary convention presented by the Horror Writers Association. Registration for StokerCon 2025 is now available! This year the convention is being hosted by the city of Stamford, Connecticut, at the Hilton Stamford Hotel and Executive Meeting Center. We’re taking over from June 12th through the 15th, 2025.

Rhonda Jackson Garcia AKA RJ Joseph

RJ Joseph, Writer/Speaker

academic and creative writer/editor/professor

Houston, TX

https://rhondajacksonjoseph.com

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About me

Rhonda Jackson Garcia, AKA RJ Joseph, is a Stoker Award™ and Shirley Jackson Award nominated, Texas based academic and creative writer/professor 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 the 2020 Halloween issue of Southwest Review and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Series. Rhonda is also an instructor at the Speculative Fiction academy @AcademyFiction and is a co-host of the Genre Blackademia podcast @GenreBlackPod.
She occasionally peeks out on various social media platforms from @rjacksonjoseph or at www.rhondajacksonjoseph.com