Brandon Hobson

{{Short description|Cherokee Nation fiction writer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use American English|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox writer | name = Brandon Hobson | image = Tulsa-award5.jpg | image size = 250 | caption = Hobson at the Tulsa Public Library | occupation = writer, professor | education = Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City University | genre = literary fiction | movement = postmodern fiction, postmodern literature, metafiction, postcolonialism | nationality = Cherokee Nation }}

'''Brandon Hobson''' is a Cherokee fiction 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.<ref name=About>{{Cite web|title=About|url=https://brandonhobson.com/contact-1|access-date=2021-01-25|website=Brandon Hobson|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Yantis |date=27 February 2023 |title=Native American Author Headlines ASU Writers Conference |url=https://sanangelolive.com/news/education/2023-02-27/native-american-author-headlines-asu-writers-conference}}</ref> <br><br /> In 2022, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref name=":1">{{cite web | url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/brandon-hobson/ | title=Brandon Hobson }}</ref> 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'' <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Brandon Hobson|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/brandon-hobson/|access-date=2020-06-04|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref> * 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlisted for ''Where the Dead Sit Talking'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=Aspen Institute Announces the Longlist for the 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize |url=https://www.aspeninstitute.org/news/2019-aspen-words-literary-prize-longlist/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=The Aspen Institute |language=en-US}}</ref> *2019 Reading the West Award winner in fiction for ''Where the Dead Sit Talking'' <ref>https://readingthewest.com/winners/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Reading the West |language=en-US}}</ref> *2019 St. Francis College Literary Prize Finalist for ''Where the Dead Sit Talking'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=What's New At SFC |url=https://www.sfc.edu/news |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=St. Francis College |language=en}}</ref> *2020 International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for ''Where the Dead Sit Talking'' <ref>{{Cite web|title=Where The Dead Sit Talking – International DUBLIN Literary Award|url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/books/where-the-dead-sit-talking/|access-date=2021-01-25|language=en-US}}</ref> *2022 Western Heritage Award Winner for ''The Removed'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Removed - Western Heritage Award Winner |url=https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/collections/awards/wha/the-removed/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |language=en-US}}</ref> *2023 Dos Passos Prize Finalist <ref>https://www.longwood.edu/news/2023/dos-passos-shortlist-2023/</ref> *2026 PEN Faulkner Award Longlisted for ''The Devil is a Southpaw'' <ref>https://www.penfaulkner.org/2026/02/02/announcing-the-longlist-for-the-2026-pen-faulkner-award-for-fiction/</ref> *2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist for ''The Devil is a Southpaw'' <ref>https://pen.org/2026-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/</ref>

===Other=== * 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship<ref>https://www.gf.org/fellows/brandon-hobson/</ref> * 2025 American Indian Writers Award <ref>https://www.tulsalibrary.org/2025-american-indian-writers-award-honoring-brandon-hobson</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_City-County_Library</ref>

== Books ==

=== Novels === * ''Deep Ellum'', 2014 * ''Desolation of Avenues Untold'', 2015 * ''Where the Dead Sit Talking'', 2018 * ''The Removed'', 2021<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hobson |first=Brandon |title=The Removed |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2021 |isbn=9780062997548 |edition=hardcover |language=en }}</ref> * ''The Devil is a Southpaw'', 2025

===Children's books=== * ''The Storyteller'', 2023

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commonscat|Brandon Hobson}}

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