Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, born in and currently a resident of Texas, has been having her speculative fiction and horror published since 2012. A July 2013 graduate with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program, her first published story was "They Come In Through The Walls" in May 2013 in the online magazine Expanded Horizons. Since then, Stufflebeam has published over 60 works of short fiction, many of then published in her 2022 collection Where You Linger & Other Stories (Vernacular Books). She has been published in a number of periodicals, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Uncanny, "Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and The Toast*.

An author of poems and essays as well as fiction, Stufflebeam released a novella, Glorious Fiends, in 2022. Her first novel, a horror work of haunted house fiction, Grim Root, came out in 2024. Stufflebeam has been nominated for a number of literary honors, including the 2015 James Tiptree Award (Honorable Mention for "Everything Beneath You"), the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (The Orangery), and the 2021 Nebula for Best Novelette (Where You Linger). She has also placed or been short- or long-listed for the 2016 Selected Shorts/Electric Lit Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, the 2015 British Science Fiction Association Awards, the 2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest, and the 2015 Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review's Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction