Rhonda Jackson Garcia

My name is Rhonda Jackson Garcia and I write under the pen names R.J. Joseph and Rhonda Jackson Joseph. I earned my MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and I currently work as an associate professor of English. I have had several stories published in various venues, including two anthologies of horror written by Black, female writers, the Stoker Award™ finalist Sycorax’s Daughters and Black Magic Women, as well as in Campfire Macabre, a flash fiction anthology, and the Halloween issue of Southwest Review. My academic essays have also appeared in applauded collections, such as the Stoker Award™ finalists Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series and The Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Series. My essay from The Streaming of Hill House, “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House: An Examination of Monstrous Motherhood”, was also a Stoker Award™ finalist for 2020.