Owen Egerton

Award winning novelist and filmmaker Owen Egerton is the author of a number of books including The Book of Harold the Illegitimate Son of God, How Best to Avoid Dying, and the PEN Southwest Book Award winner Hollow, which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2017. He is also the writer/director of several films including Mercy Black (Blumhouse, Universal, Netflix), and the horror-comedy Blood Fest (Rooster Teeth, Warner Media). As a screenwriter, Egerton has written for Fox, Warner Bros, and Disney. Egerton is also a contributor to Salon and the Huffington Post. He is one of the talents behind the Alamo Drafthouse’s long-running comedy show Master Pancake Theater and host of the One Page Salon reading series. Egerton has been voted Austin’s Best Author six times by readers of The Austin Chronicle.