Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones is an American author of horror fiction, celebrated as one of the most important voices in Native American horror. He won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel twice—for The Only Good Indians (2020) and My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021)—as well as the Bram Stoker Award, the Ray Bradbury Award, and the Locus Award. Jones is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe. Born in Midland, Texas in 1972, he is one of the most prolific horror authors working today, with dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories to his name. The Only Good Indians follows four Blackfeet men haunted by a spirit from a hunting trip gone wrong, while My Heart Is a Chainsaw features a half-Blackfeet girl obsessed with slasher films who notices a real killer in her town. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Colorado Boulder and lives in Boulder, Colorado.