His first novel was plucked from a slush pile and went on to be #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best SF/F of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize, and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for Debuts. His short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, among other places. He has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an MFA in Popular Fiction from the Stonecoast program of the University of Southern Maine.
By night, he wanders a maze of bookshelves and empty coffee cups, and by day he wanders the streets of San Antonio, where he lives and works.
He tries to write in between.
By night, he wanders a maze of bookshelves and empty coffee cups, and by day he wanders the streets of San Antonio, where he lives and works.
He tries to write in between.
Genres: Science Fiction
Series
Dogsland Trilogy
1. Never Knew Another (2011)
2. When We Were Executioners (2012)
3. We Leave Together (2014)
1. Never Knew Another (2011)
2. When We Were Executioners (2012)
3. We Leave Together (2014)
Novels
Last Dragon (2008)
Maze (2013)
Straggletaggle (2014)
The Fortress At the End of Time (2017) (as by Joe M McDermott)
Sorrow of the Cranes (2022)
Maze (2013)
Straggletaggle (2014)
The Fortress At the End of Time (2017) (as by Joe M McDermott)
Sorrow of the Cranes (2022)
Collections
Women and Monsters (2011)
We Were Fish (poems) (2011)
Disintegration Visions (2012)
The Lady or the Tiger, Death Mask and Eulogy (2012)
We Were Fish (poems) (2011)
Disintegration Visions (2012)
The Lady or the Tiger, Death Mask and Eulogy (2012)
Novellas and Short Stories
Death Mask and Eulogy (2011)
King Basilisk's Palace (2012)
Rocket (2013)
War Beetles (2013)
Vast and Unbroken (2014)
King Basilisk's Palace (2012)
Rocket (2013)
War Beetles (2013)
Vast and Unbroken (2014)
Anthologies edited
The Way of the Laser (2020) (with Eric M Bosarge (as by Joe M McDermott) )
Evil in Technicolor (2020) (as by Joe M McDermott)
Evil in Technicolor (2020) (as by Joe M McDermott)
Books containing stories by J M McDermott
More books
Award nominations
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J M McDermott recommends
No Return (2013)
(Jeroun, book 1)
Zachary Jernigan
"Jernigan's fiction is luminous and hallucinatory with its world-building, while still grounding readers into strong characters fully human. He scribes the future as an alien landscape with only just enough familiarity to unsettle us from our familiar, comfortable tropes. I highly recommend this gorgeous debut novel to all fans of strange fiction."
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