The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D. Jackson is an American young adult fiction author from New York. In addition to The Weight of Blood (2022), her young adult novels include Allegedly (2017), Monday’s Not Coming (2018), Let Me Hear a Rhyme (2019), Grown (2020), The Awakening of Malcolm X (2021, coauthored by Ilyasah Shabazz), White Smoke (2021), and Blackout (2021). While some of Jackson’s other novels are in the horror genre and contain supernatural elements like The Weight of Blood, others are realistic but still explore real-life social horrors, which can be scarier than monsters or witchcraft and are often the real villains behind the supernatural “evils” depicted in the horror novels.

In addition to writing for young adults, Jackson has published a picture book, Santa in the City (2021), and has written and directed a web horror-film series called So I Married a Vampire (2010), as well as the short film The Field Trip (2011). She earned a bachelor’s degree in film from Howard University and a master’s degree in media studies from The New School. Her first novel, Allegedly, was nominated for the NAACP Image Award, and she is a bestselling author. While some of her books are set in New York, others, such as The Weight of Blood, explore different settings, such as small towns and haunted houses.