Jovanka Vuckovic is an award winning writer and filmmaker. Her university education was in Physical Anthropolopgy. She had a 5 year stint as a visual effects artist (sometimes under unknown pseudonyms), won a Gemini Award for Best Visual Effects, then moved on to edit the horror publication Rue Morgue Magazine for six and a half years. She now writes and directs her own films. The first of which, the award-winning short The Captured Bird, is executive produced by genre film legend Guillermo del Toro. Vuckovic is also the author of Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead, from St. Martin's Press (with an introduction by zombie godfather, George Romero).
Vuckovic has appeared as a zombie in Zakk Snyder's Dawn of the Dead and George Romero's Land of the Dead. She is one of the most influential women in horror, having put the fledgling Rue Morgue on the map under her stewardship. Her presence at the helm also and opened up the doors for more women to become involved in the horror genre. She is easily recognizable as she has bright flame hair and is heavily tattooed with horror icons including Lon Chaney Sr., Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Christopher Lee, Edgar Allan Poe and more.
