Dr. Brandon Hobson is the author of the novels, The Removed, Where the Dead Sit Talking, finalist for the National Book Award, and other books. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, NOON, and in many other publications. He has received fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, the UCROSS Foundation and Ragdale. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.