Brandon Hobson

Brandon Hobson is a Cherokee 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.

In 2022, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021 ("Escape from the Dysphesiac People"), McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and many other places.

Honors and awards

Literary awards 2016 Pushcart Prize for "Past the Econolodge" in Noon (magazine) 2018 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for Where the Dead Sit Talking 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlisted for Where the Dead Sit Talking 2019 Reading the West Award winner in fiction for Where the Dead Sit Talking 2019 St. Francis College Literary Prize Finalist for Where the Dead Sit Talking 2020 International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for Where the Dead Sit Talking 2022 Western Heritage Award Winner for The Removed 2023 Dos Passos Prize Finalist 2026 PEN Faulkner Award Longlisted for The Devil is a Southpaw 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist for The Devil is a Southpaw

Other 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship 2025 American Indian Writers Award

Books

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