Casey DW Jones

Welcome. I’m Casey DW Jones, author of literary fiction and short stories rooted in rural decay, served with healthy doses of hope and humor. I write about the hard stuff: poverty, grief, addiction, mental illness, environmental ruin, and the weight of intergenerational trauma. I’m especially drawn to the ways pain evolves over time—reshaping families and communities—and how resilience, redemption, and hope emerge from the fractures of the modern American struggle.

I grew up in Kansas, and have a B.A. from The University of Kansas and an M.F.A. from Hamline University, where I worked on many editions of Water~Stone Review. Over the years, my fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions. Recently, I was awarded a Loft Mentor Series Fellowship. I am currently seeking representation for my first novel, A Broken Plain.

You can read a selection of my short stories below. Thank you for stopping by. Reach out anytime, or connect with me on social, for friendship, inquiries or a simple chat.