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Brandon Hobson
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| Occupation | writer, professor |
| Nationality | Cherokee Nation |
| Education | Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City University |
| Genre | literary fiction |
Brandon Hobson is an American writer. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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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 Best American Short Stories 2021, 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
- 2023 John Dos Passos Prize, finalist
- 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2022 Western Heritage Award winner
- 2021 Inclusion of "Escape from the Dysphesiacs" in The Best American Short Stories 2021
- 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist
- 2019 St. Francis College Literary Award, finalist
- 2019 Reading the West Award winner
- 2018 National Book Award finalist
- 2016 Pushcart Prize
Books
- Deep Ellum, 2014
- Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015
- Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018
- The Removed, 2021
Children's books
- The Storyteller, 2023
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