Tucson Festival of Books

Brandon Hobson



Connor Bock

Brandon Hobson's novel "Where the Dead Sit Talking" was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the UCROSS Foundation. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma. Besides writing "The Removed," his latest novel is "The Devil is a Southpaw."

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Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, Pushcart Prize, Finalist for National Book Award.

Communities: Indigenous or Native American


Books:
The Devil Is a Southpaw
A Novel
Fiction / Literature
HarperCollins Publishers
October 2025
ISBN 9780063259652
352 pages

The Removed
A Novel
Fiction / Literature
HarperCollinsPublishers
January 2021
ISBN 9780062997548
272 pages