Brandon Hobson facts for kids

Brandon Hobson is a Native American writer primarily known for literary fiction novels. His novel Where the Dead Sit Talking (2018) 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 ("Escape from the Dysphesiacs"), McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and many other places. Writer Ottessa Moshfegh included his novel Deep Ellum on her list of six favorite books.

Honors and awards

• 2016 Pushcart Prize
• 2018 National Book Award for Fiction, finalist
• 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist
• 2019 Reading the West Award, winner
• 2019 St. Francis College Literary Prize, finalist
• 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist
• 2022 Western Heritage Award, winner
• 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2023 Dos Passos Prize, finalist

Books

Novels

• Deep Ellum, 2014
• Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015
• Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018
• The Removed, 2021

Children's books

• The Storyteller, 2023