American · b. 1973
S.A. Cosby is an American crime novelist from southeastern Virginia, where most of his books are set. He worked in a range of jobs before turning to writing full time, and he first drew notice with short fiction. His novel Blacktop Wasteland (2020), about a getaway driver pulled back into crime, became a breakout success and won the Anthony and Macavity awards. Razorblade Tears (2021), about two fathers avenging their sons, was also widely praised and won an Anthony Award. All the Sinners Bleed (2023) follows the first Black sheriff of a Virginia county as he hunts a killer. Cosby's books mix fast plotting with close attention to race, class, family and rural Southern life. He is a leading figure in the Southern noir revival and has become one of the best-known crime writers working in the United States today.