Romer Shaw was born in New Orleans, raised on stories older than the soil, and called—again and again—back to the Mississippi Delta.

His roots stretch through generations of Mississippi blood, but it’s more than lineage that binds him to that land. It’s a pull. A presence. Something spiritual. As if the alluvial earth itself had a claim on his soul.

Writing in the tradition of Faulkner, Baldwin, Woodrell, and Mosley, Romer crafts Southern Gothic stories soaked in memory, fire, and moral reckoning. His work centers the Delta—its ghosts, its heat, its brutal beauty—as both character and curse.

He lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans.