STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES is The New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher: A Novel. He has been a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient and is a recipient of several awards, including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times; the Bram Stoker Award; the Shirley Jackson Award; the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters; the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction; and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.