Stephen Graham Jones' first novel, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (FC2, 2000), won the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction. His second novel was All the Beautiful Sinners (Rugged Land, 2003). He was awarded a 2002 NEA Fellowship for The Bird Is Gone and his fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Open City, Meridian, Pleiades, Cutbank and Alaska Quarterly Review.  He's thirty-one, Blackfeet, and is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech.

"My hat is off to Stephen Graham Jones, because he is the kind of author that makes the frustrated writer inside every book reviewer cringe with self-doubt."

-PopMatters

"Jones has exploded the conventional rhythms of novelistic narrative."

-The Austin Chronicle