StokerCon 2026

Jamal Hodge is a 2x Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer and an award-winning director. He has directed for Investigation Discovery’s Primal Instinct and PBS’s Southern Storytellers, while producing credits include the Academy Award–nominated documentary Armed Only With a Camera: The Life & Death of Brent Renaud and the forthcoming animated feature Pierre the Pigeon Hawk. In literature, he is an Elgin Award winner, a Dwarf Stars Award winner, and a Rhysling Award finalist whose work appears consistently in anthologies and magazines, such as Chiral Mad 5, The Big Bad Book of Kaiju, and Space & Time Magazine. His anthology Bestiary of Blood debuted as Amazon’s #1 New Horror Anthology Release, and his forthcoming books, I’m Not a Good Person, I’m a New Yorker, to be released in July 2026 by Crystal Lake Publishing; and the anthology Shards of Gotham from Ruadán Press, to be released in 2027, continue his exploration of pain, identity, and redemption.