Acclaimed Novelist Stephen Graham Jones to Read in Fayetteville

The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is proud to welcome novelist Stephen Graham Jones as its 2025-26 Distinguished Reader. 

Graham Jones will give a  public reading of his work at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, at the Fayetteville Public Library.

A Q&A and book signing will follow. 

This event is free, but tickets are required. Get your ticket starting March 24.

Stephen Graham Jones is a New York Times bestselling author of 35 or so novels and collections, and there's some novellas and comic books in there as well. Jones has been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the August Derleth British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award, the American Library Association'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 and six This is Horror Awards. Jones has also been inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. He's the guy who wrote Mongrels, The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, Earthdivers, I Was a Teenage Slasher, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and Killer on the Road. Jones lives in Boulder, Colorado.

For 60 years, the U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation has served as a preeminent training ground for some of the nation's best writers. Established in 1966, ours is one of the oldest M.F.A. programs in the nation and one of the most innovative, offering degree tracks in poetry, fiction and literary translation.

Each semester, our Walton Reading Series brings in established authors who offer a public reading and hold one-on-one conferences with students. Past visitors have included Colum McCann, A.E. Stallings, Khaled Mattawa, Franz Wright, Marian Schwartz and William Gay. In addition, our Distinguished Readers Series lures true literary luminaries to campus for a public reading and private M.F.A. events: W.S. Merwin, Shahrnush Parsipur, Robert Hass, Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith and Claudia Rankine, among others.