Stephen Graham Jones

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Jones at the National Book Festival 2025
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Midland, Texas, U.S.
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OccupationWriter, Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at University of Colorado
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Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972) is an American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction,[1] crime fiction, and science fiction.[2][3][4] His works include the horror novels The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and Night of the Mannequins.

Jones is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado where he has been a faculty member since 2008.[5][6]

Early life and education

Stephen Graham Jones was born in Midland, Texas, on January 22, 1972, to Dennis Jones and Rebecca Graham.[7] He is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.[8]

Jones's enthusiasm for reading began at the early age of 11; however, as a boy he had aspirations to be a farmer, never a teacher or a writer. After completing a semester of college, Jones decided to continue to pursue his degree while still having the intention to return to a manual labor job post-grad.[9]

Jones received his Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from Texas Tech University in 1994, a Master of Arts in English from the University of North Texas in 1996, and his Ph.D. in 1998 from Florida State University.[10]

After graduating with his Ph.D. in 1998, Jones worked in a warehouse in Texas until a back injury sentenced him to a desk job. Jones worked at the Texas Tech Library until going on to teach at Texas Tech University and the University of West Texas.[11]

Writing career

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Jones at a 2014 book signing

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.[12] It was followed by All the Beautiful Sinners in 2003.

In 2002, Jones won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction.[13] 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.[14] He won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction for Mapping the Interior in 2017.[15]

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Jones in 2019

The Only Good Indians, a horror novel, was published on July 14, 2020, through Saga Press and Titan Books. It won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction in 2020.[16] Jones won two 2020 Bram Stoker Awards for Night of the Mannequins and The Only Good Indians.[17]

Jones contributed an X-Men story to Marvel Comics' Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 anthology, release in November 2020. Joining him was artist David Cutler.[18]

Themes and style

Jones has acknowledged a debt to Native American Renaissance writers, especially Gerald Vizenor.[19] Scholar Cathy Covell Waegner describes Jones's work as containing elements of "dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture."[19] Jones also cites the novels of Louis L'Amour as an influence on his development as a writer, stating that "For better or worse, those pulp westerns are now part of my DNA as a writer."[20]

Joseph Gaudet cited Jones' 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'.[21] His eighth novel, Ledfeather, which Jones stated was the most widely taught of his books,[22] is used as Gaudet's primary example.

Jones has a natural inclination towards the sentimental and speculates that the dark and chilling nature of his writing is an overcorrection on his part. Jones enjoys the constant escalation of the bizarre but uses humor to release building pressure in order to build anticipation once more for the reader. Jones’ novels can be described as Native American Gothic, or Rez Gothic: a niche publishing genre characterized as using fantasy, science fiction, and horror to shed light on racial inequalities such as the one referenced through Jones’ novel title The Only Good Indians.[23]

Personal life

Jones and his wife Nancy married on May 20, 1995. They have two children together.[24]

Jones resides in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, son, and daughter. He teaches at the University of Colorado as the Ineva Reilly Baldwin Endowed Chair. Jones enjoys returning to northern Montana in July to attend the Blackfeet Nation Pow Wow and in November for the annual Montana Blackfeet elk hunt. This annual elk hunt inspired Jones’ novel The Only Good Indians.[11]

Works

Novels and novellas

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Collections

Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones

Short stories

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Comics

  • Earthdivers, no. 1–16 (Script error: No such module "Auto date formatter".). IDW Publishing.[25]
  • "Dear Final Girls" (2019) art by Jolyon Yates, originally published in the Horror Special issue of Wicked Awesome tales edited by Todd Jones.[26]
  • Memorial Ride (2021) art by Maria Wolf. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826363237.[27]

Awards

Awards for Jones's writing
Year Title Award Category Result Ref.
2008 Script error: No such module "Sort". Shirley Jackson Award Novella Finalist [28]
2009 Script error: No such module "sort". Shirley Jackson Award Novelette Finalist [29]
2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Finalist [30]
Shirley Jackson Award Single-Author Collection Finalist [31]
2014 After the People Lights Have Gone Off Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Finalist [32]
Shirley Jackson Award Single-Author Collection Finalist [33]
2016 Mongrels Bram Stoker Award Novel Finalist [34]
Shirley Jackson Award Novel Finalist [35]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Shirley Jackson Award Novelette Finalist [35]
2017 Mapping the Interior Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Won [36]
Shirley Jackson Award Novella Finalist [37]
Mongrels Locus Award Horror Novel Finalist [38]
2018 Mapping the Interior World Fantasy Award Novella Finalist [39]
2020 Night of the Mannequins Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Won [40]
Shirley Jackson Award Novella Won [41]
Script error: No such module "sort". Bram Stoker Award Novel Won [40]
Goodreads Choice Award Horror Finalist [42]
Ray Bradbury Prize — Won [43]
Shirley Jackson Award Novel Won [41]
2021 My Heart Is a Chainsaw Bram Stoker Award Novel Won [44]
Script error: No such module "sort". Alex Award — Won [45]
Audie Award Thriller/Suspense Finalist [46]
British Fantasy Award Horror Novel Finalist [47]
Dragon Award Horror Novel Nominated [48]
Ignyte Award Adult Novel Finalist [49]
Locus Award Horror Novel Finalist [50]
Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award — Won [51]
World Fantasy Award Novel Finalist [52]
Script error: No such module "sort". Locus Award Short Story Finalist [50]
2022 My Heart Is a Chainsaw British Fantasy Award Horror Novel Finalist [53]
Dragon Award Horror Novel Nominated [54]
Locus Award Horror Novel Won [55]
Shirley Jackson Award Novel Won [56]
2023 Don't Fear the Reaper Bram Stoker Award Novel Finalist [57]
Shirley Jackson Award Novel Finalist [58]
Script error: No such module "sort". Ignyte Award Novelette Finalist [59]
2024 Don't Fear the Reaper British Fantasy Award Horror Novel Won [60]
Locus Award Horror Novel Finalist [61]
I Was a Teenage Slasher Bram Stoker Award Novel Finalist [62]
2025 Script error: No such module "sort". Locus Award Horror Novel Finalist [63]
Script error: No such module "sort". Ignyte Award Short Story Finalist [64]
Locus Award Short Story Finalist [63]
Script error: No such module "sort". Bram Stoker Award Novel Pending [65]
Dragon Award Horror Novel Nominated [66]
Goodreads Choice Awards Horror Finalist [67]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Fiction Finalist [68]
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction Finalist [68]
Nebula Award Novel Pending [69]
2026 Audie Award Horror Won [70]
British Fantasy Award Horror Novel Won [71]
Locus Award Horror Novel Won [72]

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