Contributor profile

Jo Kaplan

Jo Kaplan writes and teaches in the Los Angeles area with much encouragement from her husband and two cats. Her fiction (as Joanna Parypinski) has appeared in Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, and Vastarien: A Literary Journal; the anthologies Haunted Nights (edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton) and Don’t Turn Out the Lights: A Tribute to Alvin Schwart’z Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (edited by Jonathan Maberry); and the Nightscript series. Her forthcoming novel, It Will Just Be Us, will be published by Crooked Lane Books in Fall 2020. She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community College, where she also plays cello in the GCC orchestra.

Website: jo-kaplan.com • @joannapary on Twitter