Events › Author Voices: In Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones

“For me and vampires, there is Stoker, there is Rice, and now there is Jones. It’s harrowing, agonizing, nuanced, and downright philosophical. Very likely Jones’s masterpiece.” 

— Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall

Discover the world of Stephen Graham Jones: an unforgettable swirl of horror and heart, where each story is a masterclass in weaving the unsettling with the profoundly human, capturing the essence of fear while exploring themes of identity, belonging, and redemption. His deftly drawn narratives navigate worlds balancing precariously on the edge of reality and nightmare, where the supernatural and the mundane collide in unexpected ways. Stephen Graham Jones's masterful blend of horror and humanity ensures that his works linger long after the last page is turned.

Stephen is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty 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 LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, WLA’s Distinguished Achievement Award, ALA’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, six This is Horror Awards, and he’s been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and the Eisner Award. He’s also made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels, and is the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, Earthdivers, I Was a Teenage Slasher, and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, which NPR hails as "Jones's version of [Michael] Jordan dropping 69 points against the Cleveland Cavaliers." 

Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, with a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many boots.

Event Moderator: Madrienne White

Madrienne is a proud Muckleshoot Tribal member. She is also a current second-year, Muckleshoot-cohort, Ed.D student in the School of Education at the University of Washington Tacoma. She holds degrees from UW Seattle, as well, a Bachelor’s in American Indian Studies and an Executive Master’s in Public Administration. Additionally, she holds an AA degree from Green River College.

She spent most of her professional life in the Muckleshoot Intergovernmental Affairs department (13.5yrs) before transitioning to Adult and Higher Education (AHE) in 2022. She brings her dynamic communications, policy development, and public relations background to the AHE environment, offering strategic and approachable leadership in her role as an administrator and as a student.

Inspired by her Muckleshoot roots, she is an advocate for honoring ancestral knowledges, protecting treaty rights, exercising tribal educational sovereignty, and practicing traditional forms of knowledge transfer, community building, and healing. Mother to an Autistic son, she is also passionate about studying Autism and learning how to improve and indigenize systems in Autism interventions to benefit Native American Autistic children and their parents.

This is a hybrid event which can be attended in person at the Auburn Library and will also be livestreamed. Please register for this event to receive a link to the livestream. Registration is not required to attend the event in person, but space is limited. Doors will open at 7:00 PM. Seating will be first-come, first-served.

For a link to the livestream, you will be emailed the link no later than one hour before the program start time. If you do not see an email, please check your Junk or Spam folder.

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