Jon Cohn

obsessive fandom of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and we both happened to use Buffy quotes in our wedding vows. I'm born and raised in San Diego, having taken a brief 6-year detour to LA to take a crack at Film School and work within that industry. Spoiler alert, it didn't work out. So with a Film Production BFA in hand, I came back home to SD to not use my degree at all, and instead go in an entirely different direction. For the last decade or so, I've been a professional board game designer as my day job, working on licenses like Ghostbusters, Ninja Turtles, Disney, and Dragonball. I've also got a few of my own design, including the narrative-based horror game Grind House thats basically a choose-your adventure party game with like 300 interactive short stories. I got into full time writing in 2019, starting with short stories that were published in anthologies like Diablo House and the Bellevue Literary Review. My first Novel, an island Folk-horror book called The Island Mother, won Publishers Weekly’s 2022 Booklife Prize for best horror fiction. I followed that up the following year with Slashtag, about a bonkers haunted reality show that goes wrong in all the right ways. My wife and I live in San Diego CA with our two little dogs Gizmo and Luna, where we live for Halloween. Seriously, I spend at least 3 months a year planning a huge murder mystery party that we have hosted annually for the last 8 years.