S. Craig Zahler is an award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer, and musician. He wrote, directed, and co-composed the score for the 2015 film Bone Tomahawk, an Independent Spirit Award nominated picture (Best Screenplay; Best Supporting Actor) starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins. Zahler more recently wrote and directed Brawl in Cell Block 99, a New York Times Critic’s Pick, and Dragged Across Concrete.

Zahler’s debut novel, A Congregation of Jackals, was nominated for the Peacemaker and the Spur awards. He is also the author of Wraiths of the Broken Lands, Mean Business on North Ganson Street, Corpus Chrome, Inc., The Narrow Caves, and Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, and author/illustrator of Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus.