2025 American Indian Writers Award
Honoring Brandon Hobson
Dr. Brandon Hobson was born and raised in Oklahoma and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He graduated with his Ph.D. in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. Currently, Hobson is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and also teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2022 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the fiction category.
He is the author of five books including Deep Ellum, Desolation of Avenues Untold, Where the Dead Sit Talking, The Removed and The Storyteller. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Reading West Award and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. The Storyteller, a kaleidoscope middle-grade adventure, was listed on New York Times Best Children’s Books of 2023.
Among his other accolades, Hobson has a Pushcart Prize for fiction and his short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories for 2021, McSweeney’s, Conjunctions and NOON.
