Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones | |
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 Stephen Graham Jones, late 2019 | |
| Born | January 22, 1972 Midland, Texas, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at University of Colorado |
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| Genre | Horror fiction |
Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972)experimental fiction, horror fiction,[2] crime fiction, and science fiction.[3][4][5] 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.[6][7]
Background
Stephen Graham Jones was born in
Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of Montana.[8]
Jones received his
Master of Arts degree in English from the University of North Texas in 1996, and his Ph.D. in 1998 from Florida State University.[9]
Writing career
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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]
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 2020. Joining him was artist David Cutler.[17]
Themes and style
Jones has acknowledged a debt to Native American Renaissance writers, especially Gerald Vizenor.[18] Scholar Cathy Covell Waegner describes Jones's work as containing elements of "dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture."[18]
Joseph Gaudet cited Jones' writing as "post-ironic" or representative of
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 stated was the most widely taught of his books,[20]
is used as Gaudet's primary example.
Personal life
Jones and his wife Nancy married on May 20, 1995. They have one child together.[1]
Awards
Selected works
Books
- ISBN 978-1573660884.
- ISBN 978-1590710081.
- ISBN 978-1573661096.
- Seven Spanish Angels. Dzanc. 2005. ASIN B005D7V6NA.
- ISBN 978-0803226050.
- ISBN 978-1596921641.
- The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Chiasmus Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0981502748.
- 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. Broken 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.
- ISBN 9781250752079.[37]
- ISBN 9781982136451.
- ISBN 9781982137632.
- ISBN 978-1982186593.
- The Angel of Indian Lake. Saga, Simon & Schuster. 2024. ISBN 978-1668011669.
Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones
- P.T. Jones; ISBN 9781771481731.
Short stories
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- "Captain's Lament". Clarkesworld. No. 17. February 2008.
- "How Billy Hanson Destroyed the Planet Earth, and Everyone on It". Juked. April 1, 2009.
- Jones, Stephen Graham (2012). "Little Lambs". In VanderMeer, Jeff; VanderMeer, Ann (eds.). ISBN 978-0765333605.
- Sterling City. Nightscape. 2013. ISBN 9781938644160.
- The Elvis Room. This is Horror. 2014. ISBN 9780957548152.
- "Brushdogs". Nightmare Magazine. No. 58. 2014.
- "Men, Women, and Chainsaws." Tor.com. 2022. ISBN 9781250850874.
Comics
- Earthdivers, no. 1– (October 2022–present). IDW Publishing.[38]
- 'Dear Final Girls' (2019) art by Jolyon Yates, originally published in the Horror Special issue of 'Wicked Awesome tales' edited by Todd Jones.[39]
References
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- ^ "Stephen Graham Jones on writing horror and its inverse, romance". Los Angeles Times. April 11, 2014. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
- ^ Alexandra Alter (August 14, 2020). "'We've Already Survived an Apocalypse': Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi". The New York Times. p. C1. Archived from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
- ^ "Interview: Stephen Graham Jones on The Weird - Weird Fiction Review". Weird Fiction Review. January 16, 2012. Archived from the original on April 6, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
- ^ Jones, Stephen Graham. "Stephen Graham Jones – doesn't understand milk-drinking". Demon Theory.net. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2010.
- ^ "Stephen Graham Jones". English. June 19, 2018. Archived from the original on October 8, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
- ^ "Texas Archival Resources Online". txarchives.org. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- ^ Cosel, Pamela (October 22, 2020). "Texas Book Festival names Midland native Stephen Graham Jones winner of the Texas Writer Award". Round Rock Living. Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
- ^ "Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". Texas Tech University. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved October 12, 2021.
- ^ "Interview with Stephen Graham Jones by Amy Patterson". October 8, 2018. Archived from the original on November 17, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- ^ "Meet the Creative Writing Fellows: Stephen Jones". National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on April 28, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
- ^ "1936-2021 Texas Institute of Letters: Awards" (PDF). Texas Institute of Letters. March 3, 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 28, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
- ^ "2017 Bram Stoker Award® Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards". Archived from the original on August 9, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- OCLC 1105935531.
- ^ Pineda, Dorany (April 17, 2021). "Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
- ^ "The Bram Stoker Awards 2020". Archived from the original on June 3, 2021. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
- ^ "Marvel's Voices Expands with 'Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices' #1". Marvel Entertainment. Archived from the original on August 23, 2020. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
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- ^ Wilson, Michael. "One Month of Reading Stephen Graham Jones: A Primer". LitReactor. Archived from the original on October 8, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
- ^ "Stephen Graham Jones Awards". Science Fiction Awards Database. Archived from the original on December 3, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
- ^ "2010 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on June 4, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
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- ^ "2016 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees". The Bram Stoker Awards. Archived from the original on June 13, 2022. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
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- ^ Locus Online. August 16, 2021. Archivedfrom the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
- ^ a b Liptak, Andrew (August 16, 2021). "Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Shirley Jackson Awards!". Tor.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2022. Retrieved March 2, 2023.
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- CBR. Valnet Inc. Archivedfrom the original on September 7, 2022. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
- ^ "Dear Final Girls". jolyonbyates.com.
Further reading
- Billy J. Stratton, The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion (U of New Mexico P, 2016)
- Chaplinsky, Joshua (January 10, 2011). "Stephen Graham Jones". The Cult. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- Hart, Rob (November 28, 2007). "Stephen Graham Jones". The Cult. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- Slushpile (July 1, 2005). "Interview: Stephen Graham Jones, Author". Slushpile.net. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stephen Graham Jones.
- Official website
- "Exodus" short story by Stephen Graham Jones
- "The Night Cyclist" short story by Stephen Graham Jones
- "Chapter Six" short story by Stephen Graham Jones
- Reviews by Stephen Graham Jones on IMDb
- Stephen Graham Jones at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Stephen Graham Jones at the University of Colorado website
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