Jon Cohn is an award-winning horror author and board game designer based in San Diego. His upcoming novel, Kill Beth, releases June 12, 2025 on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. His debut, The Island Mother, won the 2022 Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize for Best Indie Horror, and Slashtag was a 2024 Indie Book Brawl Quarter-Finalist.
Jon writes psychological and supernatural horror with a dark, sometimes sharp-edged sense of humor. He’s also the designer of horror-themed board games including Ghostland, Basket Case, Taboo Horror, and Thanksgiving, co-designed with Eli Roth.
He lives in San Diego with his wife Delaney and their very dramatic dog, Miss Cordelia Chase.
