Brandon Hobson

Brandon Hobson is a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Reading the West Book Award for his novel Where the Dead Sit Talking. In 2021, his novel The Removed was winner of the Western Heritage Award and named a Best Book by Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal. His other books include Desolation of Avenues Untold and the novella Deep Ellum. His work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories anthology, the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Believer, The Paris Review Daily, Conjunctions, NOON, and McSweeney’s, among other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. His middle-grade debut novel, The Storyteller, is set to publish in May 2023.