Visiting Writers' Series LibGuide: Brandon Hobson

Brandon Hobson is the author of four adult novels, including his latest work The Removed about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago. Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award, winner of the Reading the West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980’s, it is a startling, authentically voiced and lyrically written Native American coming-of-age story. In 2023, Hobson published his first children’s book, The Storyteller, a middle-grade adventure about a Cherokee boy dealing with anxiety while experiencing Cherokee history and lore.

Hobson has won a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction has appeared in such places as McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, NOON, and elsewhere. In 2022, Brandon was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Brandon Hobson is an assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University, and he also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma and lives with his family in New Mexico.

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