Author Event - HK Jacobs

SAMANTHA JAYNE ALLEN is the author of Pay Dirt Road and Hard Rain. Her debut novel, Pay Dirt Road, won the Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Fiction, the Tony Hillerman Prize, is a finalist for the Shamus Award, and was named a best mystery/thriller debut of 2022 by Booklist, CrimeReads, and The Sun Sentinel. She has an MFA in fiction from Texas State University, and her writing has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Common, and Electric Literature. Raised in small towns in Texas and California, she now lives with her husband and daughter in Atlanta.

HK Jacobs is native to a small town in Texas that gave her both wings and roots. She holds a Doctor of Medicine from Baylor College of Medicine and a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas.  She is a board certified pediatric critical care physician who travels the globe caring for seriously ill children in low-middle income countries.  Her non-medical passion is writing escapist women's fiction and epic romance. Her debut novel, Wilde Type, won the IndieReader Discovery Award in 2021. She currently resides in Atlanta where she continues to balance the many roles in her life—mother, physician, dreamer, and author.