Literary fiction, short stories, and creative nonfiction

Thank you for stopping by. I’m Casey DW Jones, author of literary fiction and short stories. My work examines how poverty, grief and trauma shape lives in Middle America, and how resilience, hope and humor still find a way to grow in the ever-widening cracks. I also write young adult nonfiction books for school libraries, but fiction is my first love.

My debut novel, A Broken Plain, is currently being submitted for literary representation. It’s a darkly humorous literary suspense novel about family violence, buried secrets, and the difficult choice between justice and forgiveness.

Raised in southwest Kansas, I studied English literature at the University of Kansas before earning an M.F.A. from Hamline University, where I served as a fiction editor for Water~Stone Review. My writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions, and I was awarded a Loft Mentor Series Fellowship in 2022.

By day, I work as a copywriter for Minnesota Public Radio. I live in Minneapolis with my two daughters, where I continue to write fiction that explores family, identity and the complexities of life in the American heartland.

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