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Elias J. Black (b. 1986, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American author, screenwriter, and former theologian known for his dark, provocative novels exploring the intersections of faith, power, and corruption. After leaving seminary and working for years as a ghostwriter in the Christian publishing world, Black turned to fiction—determined, in his words, “to test belief through narrative.” His breakout work was the controversial series Bad Jesus, a gritty reimagining of the Messiah as a cunning, power-driven figure building a criminal underworld under Roman occupation. While critics were divided, the series gained cult status among indie readers and on BookTok. Black now lives reclusively on the West Coast. He rarely gives interviews and is known for writing his first drafts entirely by hand, using a black fountain pen—the origin of his pseudonym
