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Brandon Hobson is an American writer. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Brandon Hobson
Occupation	writer, professor
Nationality	Cherokee Nation
Education	Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City University
Genre	literary 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.[1] 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, NOON, Conjunctions, and many other places.[1]Writer Ottessa Moshfegh included his novel Deep Ellum on her list of six favorite books.[2]

Honors/Awards

• 2016 Pushcart Prize[1]
• 2018 National Book Award finalist [3]
• 2019 Reading the West Award winner [4]
• 2019 St. Francis College Literary Award, finalist
• 2020 International Dublin Literary Award longlist [5]
• 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship[6]

Books

• Deep Ellum, 2014
• Desolation of Avenues Untold, 2015
• Where the Dead Sit Talking, 2018
• The Removed, 2021
• The Storyteller, 2023

References

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