Dr. Brandon Hobson is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award, among other distinctions. His short stories have won a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, NOON, and elsewhere.

Hobson teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the editor in chief of Puerto del Sol. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.