Joshilyn Jackson

Jackson trained and worked as an actor before she wrote fiction, which is why she narrates her own audiobooks and has won awards for doing so. gods in Alabama, from 2005, opens with a woman who has kept a bargain with God for a decade and must go back South and break it. The later novels stay in that territory: Southern families, buried crimes, women funnier than their circumstances. She teaches creative writing inside a maximum security women's prison in Georgia.