Stephen GrahamÌýJones
- Professor of Distinction
- Ineva Reilly Baldwin Endowed Chair
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of thirty-five or so novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Stephen’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the August Derleth British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award, the American Library Association’s RUSA Award and Alex Award, the 2023 American Indian Festival of Words Writers Award, the Will Rogers Medallion Award, the Locus Award twice, the Nebula Award, five Bram Stoker Awards, three Shirley Jackson Awards, and six This is Horror Awards. Stephen’s also been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, he’s been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Eisner Award, and he’s made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels, been a New York Times Book Club selection, and been on Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List. He’s the guy who wroteÌýMongrels,ÌýThe Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw,ÌýEarthdivers,ÌýI Was a Teenage Slasher,ÌýThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter, andÌýKiller on the Road. Next up will beÌýOff the Reservation.Ìý
Areas of Specialty
- Creative Writing
- Ethnic American Literature, Literature of the Americas, Post Colonial Literature
- Popular Culture, Film, Digital Media
- Comic books
- Novels in popular genres, such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, thriller, mystery, noir, and YA