Bradley Jackson is a Midwestern horror writer born in 1984 in Dayton, Ohio. He studied biology at Ohio University and worked nights as a hospital unit clerk before earning an MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A former EMT and volunteer crisis-line counselor, he draws on medical settings, Great Lakes weather, and rust-belt folklore to craft claustrophobic, slow-burn tales that increasingly blur into ecological and folk horror.
His short fiction has appeared in small-press magazines, and his novella Cold Storage won the 2019 Rust Lantern Prize. He is the author of the novels Eclipse of Sanity and The Strandveld, continuing a body of work that fuses bodily fragility, industrial decay, and the uncanny rhythms of coastal wilderness. Jackson lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches community writing workshops and hikes the dunes with a stubborn rescue beagle.
