Renee Roberson is an award-winning writer and has picked up accolades for both her fiction and nonfiction writing. Her short story, “The Polaroid,” won first place in the suspense/thriller category of the 2017 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards, and “The Monster in the Woods” took 2nd place in the Genre Short Story category of the Writer’s Digest Annual Writing Competition in 2022. She created and produces the true crime podcast “Missing in the Carolinas.”