Stephen Graham Jones's (West Texas, 1972) books are The Fast Red Road (FC2, 2000), All the Beautiful Sinners (Rugged Land, 2003), The Bird is Gone (FC2, 2003), Bleed Into Me: A Book of Stories (U. of Nebraska, 2005), Demon Theory (MacAdam/Cage, 2006), Ledfeather (FC2, 2008), The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti (Chiasmus, 2008), It Came from Del Rio (Trapdoor, 2010), and the horror collection The Ones That Got Away (Prime, 2010). His hundred and thirty or so stories have been in Asimov's, Cemetery Dance; one's coming up in Weird Tales, and his stories have shown up in Writing Fiction, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, The Best Horror of the Years, volumes 2 and 3, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. He's also won Literal Latté's short-short contest, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, has been an NEA fellow in fiction, and has been a finalist for a Black Quill Award, for an International Horror Guild Award, for the Shirley Jackson Award twice, and is currently a finalist for a Stoker. Jones teaches in the MFA program at The University of Colorado at Boulder. His true loves are werewolves and slashers and zombies, and hackysack, and twenty-sided dice, and wearing pirate clothes.