The VOX Reading Series, the Creative Writing Program, and the Institute of Native American Studies present a reading and Q&A session with novelist Stephen Graham Jones on Wednesday, February 8 at Ciné. The event is free and open to the public.

Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. Born in West Texas in 1972, Stephen Graham Jones earned a B.A. in English and Philosophy at Texas Tech University and an M.A. at University of North Texas. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University in 1998.

He is the author of eight novels and two collections of short fiction, including Seven Spanish Angels, All the Beautiful Sinners, Growing Up Dead in Texas, Ledfeather, and Zombie Bake-Off. Several other novels and collections by Jones are forthcoming in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Jones has been a Stoker finalist, a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, an NEA fellow, and has won the Texas Institute of Letters award for fiction. He is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder.