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

Literary awards

Other

Novels

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

    Children's books

  • The Storyteller, 2023