Dr. Brandon Hobson is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. He received his Ph.D from Oklahoma State University. His novel, Where The Dead Sit Talking, was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Reading The West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary 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. He teaches Creative Writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and he is the Editor In Chief of Puerto Del Sol. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.