Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction,[1] crime fiction, and science fiction.[2][3] Although his recent work is often classified as horror, he is celebrated for applying more "literary" stylings to a variety of speculative genres, as well as his prolificacy, having published 22 books under the age of 50.[4]

Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones, late 2019
Born1972
West Texas
NationalityBlackfeet Native American
Alma materTexas Tech University

University of North Texas

Florida State University
OccupationWriter, Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at University of Colorado Boulder

Jones has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellow in fiction,[3] and the Bram Stoker Award (Long Fiction).[5]

Jones contributed an X-Men story to Marvel Comics' Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 anthology, release in November of 2020. Joining him was artist David Cutler.[6]

Themes and style

Jones has acknowledged a debt to Native American Renaissance writers, especially Gerald Vizenor,[7] who wrote the praise for Jones's debut The Fast Red Road. Scholar Cathy Covell Waegner describes his work as containing elements of "dark playfulness, narrative inventiveness, and genre mixture."[7]

Other scholars such as Joseph Gaudet have cited his writing as "post-ironic" or representative of David Foster Wallace's "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.'[8] His eighth novel, Ledfeather, which Jones himself has acknowledged as being the most widely taught of his books,[9] is used as Gaudet's primary example. Mongrels too has been included as an example since its publication in 2016.

Selected works
Books
  • The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong. Fiction Collective 2. 2000. ISBN 978-1573660884.
  • All the Beautiful Sinners. Rugged Land. 2003. ISBN 978-1590710081.
  • The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto. Fiction Collective 2. 2003. ISBN 978-1573661096.
  • Seven Spanish Angels. Dzanc. 2005. ASIN B005D7V6NA.
  • Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. Native Storiers: A series of American Narratives. University of Nebraska Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0803226050.
  • Demon Theory. MacAdam/Cage. 2006. ISBN 978-1596921641.
  • The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Chiasmus Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0981502748.
  • Ledfeather. Fiction Collective 2. 2008. 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
  • 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.
  • Mongrels. HarperCollins Publishers. 2016. ISBN 978-0062412690.
  • Mapping the Interior. Tor Books. 2017. ISBN 978-0765395108
  • The Only Good Indians. Saga, Simon & Schuster. 2020. ISBN 9781982136451
Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones
  • Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly, with Paul Tremblay (ChiTeen, ChiZine Publications, 2014)[10]
Stories

References
  1. "Stephen Graham Jones on writing horror and its inverse, romance". Los Angeles Times. 2014-04-11. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  2. Alexandra Alter (2020-08-14). "'We've Already Survived an Apocalypse': Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi". The New York Times. p. C1. Retrieved 2020-08-19.
  3. "Interview: Stephen Graham Jones on The Weird - Weird Fiction Review". Weird Fiction Review. 2012-01-16. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  4. Jones, Stephen Graham. "Stephen Graham Jones – doesn't understand milk-drinking". Demon Theory.net.
  5. "2017 Bram Stoker Award® Winners & Nominees – The Bram Stoker Awards". Retrieved 2019-08-08.
  6. "Marvel's Voices Expands with 'Marvel's Voices: Indigenous Voices' #1". Marvel Entertainment. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  7. "View of Consuming, Incarcerating, and "Transmoting" Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor's Bearheart and Jones's the Fast Red Road | Transmotion".
  8. Gaudet, Joseph (2016). "I Remember You: Postironic Belief and Settler Colonialism in Stephen Graham Jones's Ledfeather". Studies in American Indian Literatures. 28 (1): 21. doi:10.5250/studamerindilite.28.1.0021. S2CID 156727460. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  9. Wilson, Michael. "One Month of Reading Stephen Graham Jones: A Primer". LitReactor. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  10. "Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly". ChiZine. April 28, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2018.

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