Brandon Hobson is a Cherokee Nation fiction writer primarily known for literary fiction novels. His novel, Where the Dead Sit Talking (2018), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Hobson received his PhD in English from Oklahoma State University and 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. In 2022, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. His fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021 ("Escape from the Dysphesiacs"), McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, NOON, and many other places.