Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972)[1] is a Blackfoot Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction,[2] crime fiction, and science fiction.[3][4] He has published "25 or 30 or so books".[5] 31.5 linear feet of works written by or related to him are held in the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community, and the Natural World, part of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.[6]

Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones, late 2019
Stephen Graham Jones, late 2019
Born1972 (age 50–51)
Midland, Texas
OccupationWriter, Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at University of Colorado Boulder
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBlackfoot Tribe, American
Alma materTexas Tech University

University of North Texas

Florida State University
GenreHorror fiction

He is currently the Ivena Baldwin professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.[7]

Background

Stephen Graham Jones was born in Midland, Texas, on January 22, 1972 to Dennis Jones and Rebecca Graham.[1] He is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.[8]

Jones married his wife Nancy on May 20, 1995, and together they have one child.[1]

Jones received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 1994.[1] He then went on to earn his Master of Arts degree in English from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas in 1996.[1] He completed his Ph.D. in 1998 from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.[9]

Writing career

While he was attending Florida State University, Jones's dissertation director introduced him to Houghton-Mifflin editor Jane Silver at the Writers' Harvest conference. Jones pitched her a novel which he had not yet written, and Silver liked the idea. Jones then wrote the book, The Fast Red Road, as his dissertation. It was published as his debut novel in 2000.[10] It was followed by All the Beautiful Sinners in 2003.

In 2002, Jones won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction.[11] In 2006, he won the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters for his 2005 short story collection Bleed Into Me.[12] He won the Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction for Mapping the Interior in 2017.[13]

The Only Good Indians, a horror novel, was published on July 14, 2020 through Saga Press and Titan Books.[14] It won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction in 2020.[15] Jones won two 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Night of the Mannequins and The Only Good Indians.[16]

Jones contributed an X-Men story to Marvel Comics' Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 anthology, release in November of 2020. Joining him was artist David Cutler.[17]

My Heart is a Chainsaw won the 2021 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.

Themes and style

Jones has acknowledged a debt to Native American Renaissance writers, especially Gerald Vizenor,[18] who wrote the praise for Jones's debut The Fast Red Road. Scholar Cathy Covell Waegner describes his work as containing elements of "dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture."[18]

Other scholars such as Joseph Gaudet have cited his writing as "post-ironic" or representative of David Foster Wallace's "New Sincerity," a literary approach "emerging in response to the cynicism, detachment, and alienation that many saw as defining the postmodern canon," seeking instead "to more patently embrace morality, sincerity, and an 'ethos of belief.'[19] His eighth novel, Ledfeather, which Jones himself has acknowledged as being the most widely taught of his books,[20] is used as Gaudet's primary example. Mongrels too has been included as an example since its publication in 2016.

Awards
Awards for Jones's writing[21]
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2007 “Raphael” International Horror Guild Award for Short Fiction Nominee
2009 The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti Shirley Jackson Award for Novella Nominee
2010 “Lonegan's Luck” Shirley Jackson Award for Novelette Nominee
2011 The Ones That Got Away Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection Finalist [22]
Shirley Jackson Award for Collection Nominee
2015 After the People Lights Have Gone Off Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection Nominee [23]
Shirley Jackson Award for Collection Nominee
2016 Mongrels Bram Stoker Award for Novel Finalist [24]
2017 Mapping the Interior Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction Winner [25][26]
Mongrels Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 9th
Shirley Jackson Award for Novel Nominee
“The Night Cyclist” Shirley Jackson Award for Novelette Nominee
2018 Mapping the Interior Shirley Jackson Award for Novel Nominee
World Fantasy Award—Novella Nominee
2020 Night of the Mannequins Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction Winner [27][28]
Shirley Jackson Award for Novella Winner [29][30]
The Only Good Indians Bram Stoker Award for Novel Winner [31][32]
Shirley Jackson Award for Novel Winner [29][30]
2021 My Heart is a Chainsaw Bram Stoker Award for Novel Winner [33][34]
Night of the Mannequins Shirley Jackson Award, Novella Winner
The Only Good Indians British Fantasy Award for Horror Novel Nominee
Dragon Award for Horror Novel Nominee
Ignyte Award for Adult Novel Nominee
World Fantasy Award—Novel Finalist
Locus Award for Best Horror Novel 2nd
“Wait for Night” Locus Award for Best Short Story 10th
2022 My Heart Is a Chainsaw British Fantasy Award for Horror Novel Nominee
Dragon Award for Horror Novel Nominee
Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Winner
Shirley Jackson Award for Novel Winner [35][36]

Selected works

Books
  • The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong. Fiction Collective 2. 2000. ISBN 978-1573660884.
  • All the Beautiful Sinners. Rugged Land. 2003. ISBN 978-1590710081.
  • The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto. Fiction Collective 2. 2003. ISBN 978-1573661096.
  • Seven Spanish Angels. Dzanc. 2005. ASIN B005D7V6NA.
  • Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. Native Storiers: A series of American Narratives. University of Nebraska Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0803226050.
  • Demon Theory. MacAdam/Cage. 2006. ISBN 978-1596921641.
  • The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Chiasmus Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0981502748.
  • Ledfeather. Fiction Collective 2. 2008. ISBN 978-1573661461.
  • It Came From Del Rio. Trapdoor Books. 2010. ISBN 978-1936500017.
  • The Ones that Got Away. Prime Books. 2011. ISBN 978-1607013211.
  • The Last Final Girl. Lazy Fascist Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1621050513.
  • Growing Up Dead in Texas. MP Publishing Ltd. 2012. ISBN 978-1849821544.
  • Zombie Bake-Off. Lazy Fascist. 2012. ISBN 978-1621050193.
  • Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth. Lazy Fascist. 2013. ISBN 978-1621050995.
  • Three Miles Past. Nightscape. 2013. ISBN 978-1938644078.
  • The Least of My Scars. Bad River Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1940885001.
  • States of Grace. SpringGun Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0983221883.
  • Flushboy. Dzanc Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1938604171.
  • Not for Nothing. Dzanc Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1938604539.
  • After the People Lights Have Gone Off. Dark House Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1940430256.
  • The Gospel of Z. Samhain. 2014. ISBN 978-1619218116.
  • My Hero. Hex Publishers. 2016. ISBN 978-0998666709.
  • Mongrels. HarperCollins Publishers. 2016. ISBN 978-0062412690.
  • Mapping the Interior. Tor Books. 2017. ISBN 978-0765395108.
  • Night of the Mannequins. Tor.com. 2020. ISBN 9781250752079.[37]
  • The Only Good Indians. Saga, Simon & Schuster. 2020. ISBN 9781982136451.
  • My Heart is a Chainsaw. Saga Press, Simon & Schuster. 2021. ISBN 9781982137632.
  • Don't Fear the Reaper. Saga, Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 978-1982186593.

Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones
  • P.T. Jones; Paul Tremblay (2014). Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly. ChiTeen, ChiZine Publications. ISBN 9781771481731.

Short stories

Comics

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