Stephen Graham Jones has written fifteen novels and six collections of short stories. He has won various honors, including the National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. The novel received the James Lee Burke Award for Outstanding Work of Fiction, the Independent Publisher Book Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the This Is Horror Award, as well as being named one of Bloody Disgusting's Top Ten Horror Books of the Year. Stephen was born and reared in the state of Texas. With his wife and children, he now resides in Boulder, Colorado.