Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones was born in Midland, Texas, in 1972 and grew up mostly in West Texas. Jones earned his BA in English and Philosophy from Texas Tech University in 1994, his MA in English from the University of North Texas in 1996, and his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1998.
Stephen 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. He has 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 Locus Award, four 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. He’s the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, Earthdivers, I Was a Teenage Slasher, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and Killer on the Road.
Stephen is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also teaches at the University of California Riverside–Palm Desert and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado.
