Literary fiction and short stories from the American Interior

Welcome. I’m Casey DW Jones, author of literary fiction and short stories and rooted in the incredible complexities of the American Interior. The bulk of my work examines intergenerational poverty, grief and trauma — and how resilience, hope and humor persist despite it. I also write speculative fiction, comic fiction and a bunch of other voice-y slice-of-life stuff. I’m certainly not above the occasional bout of autofiction. It’s been a real doozy of a life, after all.

Raised in southwest Kansas, I studied English literature at the University of Kansas. After a decade of working crappy jobs in cool places, I earned an M.F.A. from Hamline University, where I served as a fiction editor and reader 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.

I currently live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the tallest buildings are neither grain elevators nor water towers. I’m still not quite used to it. My two daughters and my straight job as a copywriter keep me plenty occupied. When I have time, and don’t feel like writing, you can find me playing Nintendo, watching KU Hoops and enjoying that outdoor life.

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A photo of a pasture, with yellow sunset, linking to Memory Breach, flash literary fiction by Casey DW Jones.

Memory Breach

Flash fiction appearing in Barely South Review.
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Night Beaver

Flash fiction appearing in On the Run.
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Steer the Course

Flash fiction appearing in Sundog Lit.

*Nominated for Best Small Fictions*

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Swing Me Till Summer

Short fiction appearing in Roanoke Review.
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Empty swings on an empty playground

Frog Pond

Speculative fiction appearing in Touchstone Literary Magazine.
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High Mileage

Short fiction appearing in Peatsmoke Journal. 

*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*

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Shit Pond

Short fiction appearing in New Limestone Review.
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The Hanging Tree

Short fiction originally appearing in Stoneboat Literary Journal.
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