Music freak, aesthete, and '70s aficionado, JB Jackson is a native of Fort Worth, Texas. He currently lives with his family in Sebastopol, California. He is an editor of art reference books and his fiction has appeared in Black Rose, The Wells of Ur, Death Flex: Shadow of the Executioner, and Prizes (Pilum Press New Voices, No. 4). Shagduk is his first novel. The second title in the De re dordica saga, Ursula of Ulm was published in August 2024. A third book is in the works.