Gwenna McAllis is the author of the Southern Gothic haunted house novel The House on Sunflower Lane and the completed supernatural suspense series The Compound Duology. She writes atmospheric horror set in the American South, blending folklore, haunted places, and emotionally driven stories about family, grief, and survival.

A lifelong lover of scary stories, Gwenna grew up reading the Jeffrey series by Kathryn Tucker Windham and checking out anything spooky she could find at her small-town Alabama library. She studied creative writing at the University of South Alabama and now lives in the Tennessee Valley with her husband, two young children, and an elderly rescue dog who’s seen too much.

When she’s not writing, she’s dragging her kids around on homeschool adventures, avoiding the laundry pile, and daydreaming about life in an off-grid cabin in the woods.