Brando Skyhorse

Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010), received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Biography

Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park (Simon & Schuster, 2010), received the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The book was also a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Take This Man: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2014) was an Amazon Best Book of the Month selection and named by Kirkus Reviews as one the Best Nonfiction Books of the year. He is currently coediting an anthology on passing, to be published fall 2017 (Beacon Press). Skyhorse has been awarded fellowships at Ucross Foundation, Can Serrat, and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and was the 2014–15 Jenny McKean Moore writer-in-residence at George Washington University. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the MFA Writers’ Workshop program at University of California, Irvine. Skyhorse has taught at New York University, George Washington University, and Wesleyan University. He was a Bennington faculty member for academic year 2016-2017.