Jarrod Shusterman

Jarrod Shusterman is an American author known for co-writing young-adult science fiction with his father, novelist Neal Shusterman. Their collaborations include Dry (2018), a thriller imagining Southern California descending into chaos during a sudden water crisis, and its prequel novella Roxy (2021), which personifies addictive substances as characters and was later nominated for Germany's Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in translation. Both books extend Neal Shusterman's interest in near-future social collapse into collaborative father-son storytelling, with Jarrod contributing to the plotting and prose of the shared projects. Public biographical information about Jarrod specifically, beyond his credited role alongside his father, is limited, and his published fiction to date consists of these two co-authored novels exploring societal collapse and addiction through near-future speculative premises.