Briana N. Cox on Meet Your Maker
Summary
Brian reunites with author Brianna N. Cox to discuss her March release, Indigent, after earlier conversations about Sinners and Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory.
Cox frames horror as a genre of empathy and connection that makes taboo fears communal and cathartic, and she compares horror and romance as “go big or go home” forms driven by intense emotion and physicality.
She explains Indigent as a “worm vampire” novel that invokes vampire tropes without explicit vampirism, using cannibalistic, vampire-adjacent monsters to explore consumption, addiction, and late-stage capitalism among impoverished characters.
The title references “medically indigent” patients and foregrounds U.S. healthcare trauma and distrust across a diverse ensemble cast.
Cox argues horror is inherently political, shaped by social anxieties, and discusses double standards around AI controversies.
She highlights BIPOC Vampire Day charity work and notes Indigent’s dual-narrated audiobook release in October via Simon & Schuster.
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