Houston author kiney©️ draws on more than 20 years of service in the U.S. Army—including active duty, the Texas National Guard, and Army Reserve assignments in South Korea, Germany, and Kuwait. His experiences, along with travels through the Philippines, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Thailand, inform fiction and nonfiction that explore survival, empire, trauma, identity, and faith through a distinctly Black speculative lens.

A self-described “xombie” who rose from emotional scars—and the proud father of two college graduates—kiney© writes about overlooked people confronting war, addiction, racism, spiritual manipulation, and cosmic consequence. His work ranges from ancient Egyptian conspiracies in La Pu’sey: Episode One and inherited terror in Vadoo: Tales from the Darker Side to interstellar ethical conflicts in the Planet of the Races series and religious exploitation in Game of Fallacies: The Hijacking of a Religion.

Across memoir, cultural criticism, horror, science fiction, and reimagined myth, kiney© combines lived experience with deep historical research to confront the fractures that shape society—and to imagine healing beyond them. His books include the military memoir The Last Alamo; Twenty-Seven Years a Slave: A Memoir of Silence, Survival, and Grace, an addiction-recovery memoir; Unmasking Patriotism: How African American Voices Are Redefining the Concept of American; the colonial science-fiction work What We Carry Into the Dark: Colonialism, Race, and the Ethics of First Contact; and King Kong: The Monster They Made.