Brandon Hobson

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Brandon Hobson
Occupationwriter, professor
Nationality Cherokee Nation
Education Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City University
Genreliterary 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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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] [2] In 2022, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. [3] 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. [1] Writer Ottessa Moshfegh included his novel Deep Ellum on her list of six favorite books. [4]

Honors and awards

Books

Children's books

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