Jason Sanford is an American science fiction author whose 2022 novel Plague Birds was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

He also founded the literary magazine storySouth and ran their annual Million Writers Award for best online short stories.

[6] After college Sanford served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, where he taught English in a junior high school.

[6] In 2001 Sanford, along with poet Jake Adam York, founded the literary magazine storySouth, which focuses on literature from the "New South.

[15] Sanford has described his writings and those of others as part of an emergent storytelling form called SciFi Strange, "which sets high literary standards, experiments with style, is infused with a sense of wonder, takes the idea of diverse sexuality for granted, focuses on human values and needs and explores the boundaries of reality and experience through philosophical speculation.

Micro Stories and MFA Disgust",[21] which ripped both the claimed incestuous nature of Master of Fine Arts programs and flash fiction.

"[23] Maurice Broaddus called the novel "a perfect blend of sf and fantasy weaving memory, loss, technology, and family into a wholly unique tapestry that left me turning the pages just to see what he would do next."