Distinguished Reader Stephen Graham Jones

Schedule

Tue Apr 14 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

401 W Mountain St, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Arkansas 72701 | Fayetteville, AR

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The University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing & Translation is proud to present its 2025-26 Distinguished Reader, acclaimed novelist Stephen Graham Jones. He will do a reading, Q&A and signing.

This event is free, but tickets are required. Get your ticket starting March 24 at https://www.faylib.org/event/15934109!
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-five or so novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Stephen’s 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 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 lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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