Dr. Brandon Hobson is the author of six books. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a pushcart prize, an American indian Writers Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Dos PAssos Prize, and the St. Francis College Prize. His work has appeared in The best american short stories, McSweeney’s, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and in many other journals. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.

Hobson teaches in the low residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in santa fe and is the David A. Burr Endowed Chair of Letters at the University of Oklahoma.