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Author Stephen Graham Jones

An Under the Mountain event

2022-03-05 19:00:00 2022-03-05 21:00:00 America/Chicago Author Stephen Graham Jones Join us for an evening with the award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. O’Neal Library -

Saturday, March 05
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-03-05 19:00:00 2022-03-05 21:00:00 America/Chicago Author Stephen Graham Jones Join us for an evening with the award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. O’Neal Library -

Join us for an evening with the award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones.

Join us for an evening with the award-winning author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw.

Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of nearly thirty novels short story collections, and comics.  Born in Midland, Texas and residing now in Boulder where he teaches at their University of Colorado, along the way he  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 Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, WLA’s Distinguished Achievement Award, ALA’s RUSA Award and Alex Award, three Bram Stoker Awards, two Shirley Jackson Awards, five This is Horror Awards, and he’s been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award.

His most recent novel, My Heart is a Chainsaw, follows Jade Daniels, "an angry, half-Indian outcast with a deadbeat father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

"Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges… a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body.

"My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph."

Doors at 6:30 pm, event begins at 7:00 pm.

This event is FREE and open to the public, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Reserve your seat today for a chance to win a signed book by Jones.

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Join us Under the Mountain for exclusive horror author events, chilling movie screenings, and many more macabre things to come.

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Photo credit Ellen Datlow (Jan 2018)

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