Stephen Graham Jones is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English, as well as a Professor of Distinction at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Jones is the author of several novels and story collections, including (Tor.com, 2017), (Hex Publishers, 2017), (Harper Collins Publishers, 2016), (Tor.com, 2016), , edited by Billy J. Stratton (University of New Mexico Press, 2016), (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), (Dark House Press, 2014),Ìý (Dzanc Books, 2014), (SpringGun Press, 2014), (Broken River Books, 2013), (Nightscape Press, LLP, 2014), (Dzanc Books, 2013), (This Is Horror, 2014), (Samhain Publishing, 2014), (Nightscape Press, LLP, 2013), (Lazy Fascist Press, 2012), (MP Publishing, 2012), (Lazy Fascist Press, 2012), (Prime Books, 2011), (Trapdoor Books, 2010), (MacAdam/Cage, 2006), (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), (Chiasmus Press, 2008), (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), (Rugged Land, 2010), (Fiction Collective 2, 2003) and (Fiction Collective 2, 2000) among others.
He also has nearly three hundred short stories published, from literary journals to truck-enthusiast magazines, from textbooks to anthologies to best-of-the-year annuals. Jones has been an NEA Fellow, a Texas Writers League Fellow, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Multicultural Award, the Bram Stoker Award, four This is Horror Awards, has been a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and a Colorado Book Award finalist, and he's had his work named one of Bloody Disgusting's Top Ten Horror Novels of the Year. His areas of interest, aside from fiction writing, are horror, science fiction, fantasy, film, comic books, pop culture, technology, and American Indian Studies. Jones received his BA in English and Philosophy from Texas Tech University (1994), his MA in English from the University of North Texas (1996), and his PhD from Florida State University (1998). Jones’ current projects are a paleoanthropological thriller set in Boulder, a slasher, and another slasher.