Jemiah Jefferson

      Jemiah Jefferson
      Born Denver, Colorado
      Occupation Novelist, short story writer
      Genres Erotic literature, Horror, gothic, genre fiction, dark fantasy
      Notable work(s) Voice of the Blood, Wounds, Fiend, and A Drop of Scarlet

      www.jemiah.com

      Jemiah Jefferson (born 1972) is an African-American author of contemporary horror and erotic literature. Jefferson currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

      Works

      Jemiah Jefferson's first printed work was St*rf*ck*ng, a collection of short erotic stories published by Future Tense Books. Her first full length novel was written in 24 hours in 1990.[1] This eventually became Voice of the Blood, later published by Leisure Books in 2001 and then as an e-book in 2011. This was also Jefferson's first published work detailing the adventures of the vampire Daniel Blum.

      More recently, Jefferson has written a series of novels. The second novel in this series, Wounds, was released in May 2002. The third novel, Fiend, was released in April 2005, and in 2007 Jefferson published A Drop of Scarlet. In 2010, Underland Press also published Jefferson's wovel FirstWorld.[2] In September 2011, Mixtape for the Apocalypse was released as an e-book.[3]

      Jefferson has also written for Willamette Week, a free weekly paper in Portland, the GLBT publication Just Out, as well as Plazm, 2Gyrlz Quarterly, and Cafe 80s Magazine.

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      Education and Career

      Jemiah Jefferson graduated from Reed College in 1994.[4] Jefferson currently works in the editorial department at Dark Horse Comics and is a regular contributor to Popshifter.com.[5]

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      Interviews

      • "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Evil," Village Voice, 2002 [6]
      • "Jemiah Jefferson: Implants, Vampires, and Funk," Idea Lab, 2010 [7]
      • "HEIDI'S PICK SIX: Jemiah Jefferson," 2011 [8]
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      Last modified on 16 May 2013, at 21:08