RHONDA JACKSON GARCIA (JOSEPH)
EDUCATION
MFA, Writing Popular Fiction, June 2013.
B.S., Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Houston Downtown, May 2008
Adjunct Certification Program, Lone Star College
PUBLISHED FICTION WORKS
Joseph, R. J. My Monsters Ain’t Like Yours. Quill & Crow Publishing House. 2026. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Bettina”: Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror from Texas Women. Castle Bridge Media. 2026. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Self-Preservation”: Women of the Weird West Anthology. Brigid’s Gate Press, LLC. 2026. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Homegoing”: Screams from the Bayou: A Horror Anthology. Broken Brain Books. 2026. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Inheritance”: Full Throttle: An Extreme Horror Anthology. Uncomfortably Dark. 2025. Print.
Joseph, R. J. Maelstrom. Rapture Publishing. 2025. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Phoenix Rising”: Good for Her: An Anthology of Feminine Rage. Nefarious Bat Press. 2025. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “PritTee”: Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors. Brigid’s Gate Press, LLC. 2025. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “I Wore a Girl”: Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase XII. Sherman Oaks, CA: Horror Writers Association. 2025. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “We Were Meant to be Buried”: To Root Somewhere Beautiful: An Anthology of Reclamation. Outland Entertainment. 2024. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “#GirlMom”. Something Scary Podcast. 2024. Audio Performance.
Joseph, R. J. “Those Who Teach Pay Knowledge Forward”: Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia. Shortwave Media. 2023. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Sad, Spooky Sally”: The Encyclopocalypse of Legends and Lore: Volume One (Encyclopocalypse Originals). Encyclopocalypse Publications. 2023. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Bettina”. Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast. 2023. Audio Performance.
Joseph, R. J. “Bettina”: Apex Magazine Issue #141. Apex Book Company. 2023. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “Where the Horizon Kisses the Sky”: Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga. Black Spot Books. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “No Trick, Just Treats”. Something Scary Podcast. 2022. Audio Performance.
Joseph, R. J. Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted. The Seventh Terrace. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “The Crazy with Daisy”: Picnic in the Graveyard. Binghampton, NY: Cemetery Gates Media. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Her Heart’s Desire”: Shattered and Splintered Anthology. Charity anthology. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Betrayer”: Under Her Skin: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection, Volume I. Black Spot Books. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Danse de la Morte”: Under Her Skin: A Women in Horror Poetry Collection, Volume I. Black Spot Books. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Black Like That”: The Dead Inside. Dark Dispatch. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “The Collector”: Slash-Her: A Women of Horror Anthology. Kandisha Press. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Suffer the Little Children”: Dark Dispatch Issue #3: Winter 2022 Onsite Issue. Dark Dispatch. 2022. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “Conflict Resolution”. Nightlight Podcast. February 2022. Audio Performance.
Joseph, R. J. “Skinnie Minnie”. Something Scary Podcast. February 2022. Audio Performance.
Joseph, R. J. “I Would Have Rescued Them All”. Something Scary Podcast. February 2022. Audio Performance.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “Regrets Never Die”: Americana Diabolical. Keith Anthony Baird. 2021. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Mine Offenses”: Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase VIII. Sherman Oaks, CA: Horror Writers Association. 2021. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Soulmates”: Dark Dispatch Issue #2: Deadly Love. Dark Dispatch. 2021. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “Poppin the Bodies and Lockin the Rocks”: Rock Band: An Anthology of Music Inspired
Dark Microfiction (Hundred Word Horror). Ghost Orchid Press. 2021. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Skritch”: Beneath: An Anthology of Dark Microfiction (Hundred Word Horror). Ghost Orchid Press. 2021. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “I Want to Be Free”: Paranormal Contact: A Quiet Horror Confessional. Binghampton, NY: Cemetery Gates Media. 2021. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Witness Bearer”: Twisted Anatomy: A SF&S Body Horror Anthology. Sci-Fi and Scary. 2021. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “I Would Have Rescued Them All”: Campfire Macabre. Binghampton, NY: Cemetery Gates Media. 2021. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Old-Fashioned Type of Girl”: Slashertorte: An Anthology of Cake Fiction. Sliced Up Press. 2020. Print.
Joseph, R.J. “Distorted Lies”: Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase VII. Sherman Oaks, CA: Horror Writers Association. 2020. Print.
Jackson Garcia, Rhonda. “Conflict Resolution”. Southwest Review. Autumn 2020, Volume 105.3. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University. 2020. Print.
Joseph, R.J. “So She Burns It All Down”: Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase V. Sherman Oaks, CA: Horror Writers Association. 2018. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Left Hand Torment”: Black Magic Women. Winston-Salem, NC: Mocha Memoirs Press. 2018. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Mirrored Devourer”: Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase IV. Sherman Oaks, CA: Horror Writers Association. 2017. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Mama’s Babies”: Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, Vol 2. Fort Worth, TX: Eakin Press. 2017. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “To Give Her Whatsoever She May Ask”: Sycorax’s Daughters. San Francisco, CA: Cedar Grove Books. 2017. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “A Woman’s Work”: Transitions and Awakenings: No Regrets. Austin, TX: Sanguine Press. 2016. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Monstrous Domesticity”. Houston, TX: Tea and a Tome Publishing, 2015. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “Flesh of My Flesh”. MicroHorror July 30, 2013. Electronic.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. Author Suggestion. Deep Cuts: Mayhem, Menace, & Misery. Ridge, New York. 2013: 254. Electronic.
PUBLISHED NON-FICTION WORKS
Joseph, R. J. “Shades of Gray”: Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane: Nostalgic Terrors. Brigid’s Gate Press, LLC. 2025. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Adapting the Master’s Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House”: Nighttide Magazine. 2025. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “The Black Folk Horror Presented in Tales from the Hood (1995)”: A Compendium of Creeps: World Folklore, Haunted Locales, and Original Fiction. Cemetery Gates Media. 2023. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Love Letter to My Boo, the Horror Genre”: Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2. HorrorAddicts.net Press. 2022. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “Horror Blackacademic is a Real Thing”: Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2. HorrorAddicts.net Press. 2022. Print.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “My Black Trauma Is Mine and I Can Write It If I Want To!”. AfroHorror. 2022. Electronic.
Joseph, R. J. “Invisible No More”: Dark Dispatch Issue #3: Winter 2022 Onsite Issue. Dark Dispatch. 2022. Electronic.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “Legacy and Black Lives Lived in Circles in ‘Candyman’”. Dread Central. 2021. Electronic.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “For Colored Girls Who Love Horror Movies/When Wut We Get Ain’t Enough”. AfroHorror. 2021. Electronic.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “The Horror Genre’sStructure Will Never Expand the Horror Genre’s House”. AfroHorror. 2021. Electronic.
Jackson Garcia, Rhonda. “Expressions of Radical Hope”. Contingent Magazine. Sept 2020. Electronic
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “The Beloved Haunting of Hill House”. Essays on the Haunting of Hill House. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. 2020. Print.
Jackson Joseph, Rhonda. “Gaslighting, Marginalization, and the Well-Coiffed in Stranger Things”. Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.. 2018. Print.
Joseph, R. J. “I’m That Chick Who Starts The Conversation”: Nasty!. Portland, OR: King Shot Press. 2018. Print.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2025 Bram Stoker Award™ nomination in Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Category
2025 HorrOrigins Official Selection
2025 Killer Shorts Quarter Finalist
2023 Shirley Jackson Award nomination, Collection Category
2023 Bram Stoker Award™ nomination in Superior Achievement in Story Collection Category
2022 Black Authors Matter TV award winner, Best Interview, Fantasy/Horror/Paranormal/Sci Fi
2020 Bram Stoker Award™ nomination in Superior Achievement in Short Nonfiction Category
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2025-present Creative Writing Studies Organization
2025-present Popular Culture Association
2017-present Horror Writers Association
2017-2023 National Council of Teachers of English
2018-2023 Two-Year College English Association
2018 Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
2015-2024 Texas Community College Teacher’s Association
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025 Elegant Literature. “The State of the Horror Genre”. December 2025
2025 Relatable! Exploring Difference & Relationality in Creative Writing Studies Online Conference. “I Can Relate!”. November 2025
2025 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. Virtual. “Womenfolk in Black Folk Horror”. June 2025
2024 Tulsa Literary Festival. “The State of the Horror Genre”. April 2024
2022 Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference. Virtual. “I Am My Sister’s Keeper: The Dynamics of Black Sisters in Candyman (2021), Lovecraft Country, and Eve’s Bayou”. November 2022.
2022 Candyman and the Whole Damn Swarm: A Thirtieth Anniversary Conference. “Urban Legend Begetting Folk Horror Begetting Black Legacies: Circles of Black Experiences through the Candyman (1992 and 2021)”. October 2022.
2022 IAFA Online Conference: The Global Fantastic. Virtual. “Reflections in Horror: Effective Use of Character Foils in Presenting an Inclusive Future”. October 2022.
2022 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival. Berlin, Germany. “Mothers, Lovers, and Others”. February 2022.
2021 Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference. Virtual. “Girl, Get Your House in Order: Haunted Houses as a Parallel of Defiled Femininity”. November 2021.
2021 Ax Wound Film Festival. Virtual: “Love Is a F*cking Horror Show”. October 2020.
2021 Siren’s Conference. Denver, CO. “Powerless, Marginalized Monstrosity: Female Vampires with No Bite”. October 2021.
2021 Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference. Virtual. “Not Your Typical Mammy: Subverting the Mammy Trope in Horror Portrayals of Black Motherhood”. May 2021.
2020 Multiverse Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. Virtual: “Monstrous Motherhood: Haunted Houses as Defiled Femininity”. October 2020.
2020 Salem Horror Festival. Virtual: “Rendering the Invisible Visible: Black Femininity in Horror”. October 2020.
2019 The Two-Year College Association Southeast Conference. Conroe, TX. “Wrappers Delight: Using Wrappers in the Co-Requisite Classroom”. October 2019.
2019 International Vampire Film and Arts Festival. London, England: “Female Vampires with No Bite”. July 2019.
2018 Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. The Woodlands, TX. “Rendering the Invisible Visible: Black Femininity as Unsympathetic, Powerless Monstrosity”. October 2018.
2018 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. Returning Their Gaze: The Need for More Horror Media from a Female POV”. March 2018.
2018 Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference. Providence, RI. “When We Are The Monsters: Female Monsters and the Subversion of Patriarchy”. April 2018.
2018 Lone Star College Faculty Symposium. The Woodlands, TX. “Snow White, Beyonce’, Lil’ Wayne, and Celebrity Press Conferences: Using Popular Culture to Teach Composition Components”. 2017.
2017 International Vampire Film and Arts Festival. Sighisoara, Transylvania: “Where My Girls At: The Absence of Black Femininity from Vampire Culture”. 2017.
2017 Across the Curriculum Conference. Alvin, TX: “Snow White, Beyonce’, Lil’ Wayne, and Celebrity Press Conferences: Using Popular Culture to Teach Composition Components”. 2017.
2016 Houston Area Community College English Conference. Houston, TX: “Birthing the Essence of Darkness”: Using the Black, Female Experience to Re-Shape the Conventions of Horror”. 2016.
COMMITTEES AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
2024-present READ UP Committee Member
2021-present Online ENGL 1301 Equity Committee Member
2020-2024 Project ROAR Instructional Team Member
2020 Hiring Committee Member
2019-2023 Student Success Initiative Summer Bridge Program Committee Member
2018-2019 English Textbook Committee Member
2017-2019 Volunteer Instructor for Academy of Lifelong Learning
2018-present POP-UP Academic Conference Planning Committee Member (Developed conference)
2018-present Student Success Initiative Mentor
2018-2020 Puente Instructional Team Member
CONFERENCE VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
2020-present Ann Radcliffe Convention (at StokerCon), Co-Organizer programming
2025 Multiverse Fandom Convention, Assistant Director LEARN Track programming
2019-2024 Multiverse Fandom Convention, Director LEARN Track programming
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Speculative Fiction Academy, 2021
Various courses on the nonfiction and horror writing tracks
Lone- Star College, August 2014 to present (LMS: Brightspace)
American Literature I
American Literature II
British Literature I
British Literature II
Co-Requisite English Composition I
English Composition I
English Composition II
Honors English Composition I
Honors English Composition II
Honors Writing Seminar
Women in Horror (Developed course)
Education 1300
Integrated Reading and Writing
San Jacinto Community College, August 2014 to May 2017 (LMS: Blackboard)
English Composition I
English Composition II
Creative Writing
Integrated Reading and Writing
Alvin Community College, August 2016 to May 2017 (LMS: Blackboard)
English Composition I
English Composition II