JOHNSON CITY (Oct. 16, 2020) – Native American horror and science fiction writer Stephen Graham Jones will be the featured speaker in East Tennessee State University’s Fall Residency in Creative Writing, with a talk scheduled for Monday, Oct. 19, via Facebook Live.
During his free public talk, which will begin at 4 p.m., Jones will read from his work and be interviewed by ETSU literature professor Dr. Michael Cody, who teaches Jones’s work in his Native American Literature class. The event will be streamed live on the ETSU Department of Literature and Language Facebook page.
Jones, a member of the Blackfeet tribe, is the award-winning author of more than 20 novels and short story collections, including “Mapping the Interior,” “My Hero,” “Mongrels,” “The Night Cyclist” and “Night of the Mannequins.” His new novel, “The Only Good Indians,” was the #1 bestselling new horror novel on Amazon for most of the summer.
Jones teaches at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English and a Professor of Distinction.
As part of the Fall Residency in Creative Writing, Jones will also visit virtually with ETSU’s Introduction to Fiction class taught by Dr. Mark Baumgartner.
The Fall Residency in Creative Writing is co-sponsored by ETSU’s Department of Literature and Language and Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative.
For more information, contact Dr. Jesse Graves at gravesj@etsu.edu.