Dr. Brandon Hobson is a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has taught at New Mexico State University and the institute of american indian arts. starting fall 2026, he will be the David A. Burr Endowed Chair of Letters in creative writing at the University of Oklahoma. Hobson is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.