Stephen Graham Jones
- Professor of Distinction
- Ineva Reilly Baldwin Endowed Chair
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of nearly thirty-five novels and collections, and there鈥檚 some novellas and comic books in there as well. Stephen鈥檚 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鈥檚 Distinguished Achievement Award, the American Library Association鈥檚 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鈥檚 also been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, he鈥檚 been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Eisner Award, and he鈥檚 made Bloody Disgusting鈥檚 Top Ten Horror Novels. He鈥檚 the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, The Indian Lake trilogy, the comic book Earthdivers, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
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