Joshilyn Jackson

Joshilyn Jackson is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist known for her Southern fiction, including debut novel Gods in Alabama (2005), which follows a young woman fleeing her past in a small Alabama town. Born in Florida, she earned a B.A. from Georgia State University and an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has lived in places like Powder Springs and Decatur, Georgia, and now upstate New York with her family. Her acclaimed books have won awards like SIBA’s Novel of the Year and Georgia Author of the Year, and have been translated into a dozen languages.