Brandon Som

Brandon Som (born August 13, 1975)

Life and career

Som was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He is of Mexican and Chinese descent.

He received his Bachelor of Arts at Arizona State University, From 2013 to 2014, Som was a dissertation fellow at the Center for Transpacific Studies at USC Dornsife.

Som's chapbook of poetry, Babel's Moon, was published in 2011. His first complete collection of poems, The Tribute Horse, was published in 2014, winning the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 2015.

Som's next collection, Tripas: Poems, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2023. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry and won the Pulitzer Prize.