2025 Faculty: S through Z

Clay Stafford

Clay Stafford is an American bestselling and award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, playwright, and composer; film and television producer, director, showrunner, actor; book, film, and stage reviewer; and public speaker. He has sold nearly four million copies of his books, distributed his work in sixteen languages, and spoken live to over one million people. He is the founder and CEO of the annual Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference, American Blackguard Entertainment, publisher of Killer Nashville Magazine, and a contributor to Writer’s Digest magazine with his monthly column, “Killer Writers.” He has been called “One of the Top 40 North American publishing industry professionals to watch” by Publishers Weekly, Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair), and the American Booksellers Association. Publishers Weekly lauds that Clay Stafford, through his influence, plays “an essential role in defining which books become bestsellers” throughout “the nation’s book culture.” For more information, visit https://claystafford.com/