Brandon Hobson


Brandon Hobson is a Cherokee Nation fiction writer primarily known for literary fiction novels. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.

Career

Hobson received his PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe. In 2022, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021, McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and many other places.

Honors and awards

Other

Books

Novels

Deep Ellum, 2014Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018The Removed, 2021The Devil is a Southpaw, 2025

Children's books

The Storyteller, 2023