Stories from The Deep Within

Thank you for stopping by. I’m Casey DW Jones, author of fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, and flash fiction. Most of my work explores Middle America’s rural decay, and examines how poverty, grief, addiction, and trauma are met with resilience, hope, redemption, and humor. I’m drawn to how pain is passed down, through families and communities, and how it shapes each new generation. I am fascinated by shame and marveled by redemption. And I believe that understated beauty, like a gently rolling prairie, is the best kind of beauty, and that no sunset, anywhere, is better than a High Plains sunset.

I come about this shit honestly. I grew up on the southwest Kansas flats, studied English Literature at The University of Kansas, and later earned an M.F.A. from Hamline University. For several years, I worked as a fiction editor at Water~Stone Review. My fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions, and I was recently awarded a Loft Mentor Series Fellowship.

Currently, I am seeking representation for my first full-length novel, A Broken Plain. For inquiries, manuscript requests, or a friendly chat, hit me up via email or social: