Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning writer & filmmaker who has won over 100 awards. Jamal has directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel’s Primal Instinct, was a segment director for the PBS doc-series, Southern Storytellers (2022), and directed episode 5 of The Table on Black Oak TV (2024) currently working as a producer on the animated feature film Pierre the Pigeon Hawk (starring Snoop Dog, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Coolidge, and Whoopi Goldberg).Jamal’s writing has been nominated for a 2021 & 2022 Rhysling Award and his poem “Colony” won 2^nd place at the 2022 Dwarf Stars. He is in anthologies with such notable writers as Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, and Josh Malerman. His collection The Dark Between the Twilight has been scheduleded for a May 2024 release along with his anthology, Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales scheduled for an October 4th, 2024 release. Bestiary of Blood notably has 16 Bram Stoker award winners and the first two black SFPA Grand Masters in science fiction within its pages. For more visit www.writerhodge.com