Joe Kilgore has won awards for novels, novellas, screenplays, and short stories. His tales have appeared in magazines, creative journals, anthologies, and online literary publications. He is the author of Misfortune’s Wake (February 2023), the short story collection Insomniac: Short Stories for Long Nights (October 2020), as well as the Brig Ellis Tales Fool’s Errand (April 2022), Cast Them Dead (October 2022), Carrion Moon (October 2023), and the newest, Twelve Palominos, was published by Encircle in August 2024 and has won Best Crime/Detective Novel by the Texas Authors Institute of History.
Prior to writing fiction, he had a long and successful career creating, writing, and producing television and radio commercials, plus newspaper, magazine, and internet content for an international advertising agency. He also writes novel reviews professionally for national and international firms. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Claudia, an accomplished artist. You can read more about Joe and his writing at: joekilgore.com.
