Brando Skyhorse

Brando Skyhorse is an American popularly known for his memoir Take This Man. Skyhorse’s first novel, “The Madonnas of Echo Park,” achieved notable acclaim, including the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was also selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program. Likewise, “Take This Man: A Memoir” earned recognition as an Amazon Best Book of the Month and was honored by Kirkus Reviews as one of the standout nonfiction books of the year.Additionally, Skyhorse has collaborated in co-editing an anthology titled “We Wear the Mask: 15 Authentic Tales of Identity Concealment in the United States.” He has also received prestigious fellowships from the Ucross Foundation and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. 2014-2015, he served as the Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Washington at George Washington University. Currently, Skyhorse holds the Associate Professor of English position at Indiana University in Bloomington.