Brendan Shay Basham
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Brendan Shay Basham

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Brendan Shay Basham is a Navajo (Diné) writer, artist, educator, and recovering chef, born in Alaska and raised in northern Arizona. He received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and BA in Liberal Arts from the Evergreen State College. His debut novel, Swim Home to the Vanished, was released August 22, 2023, from Harper Books/HarperCollins. Brendan’s work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, Santa Fe Literary Review, Yellow Medicine Review, and Juked, among other publications. He is a recipient of Poetry Northwest’s inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Writers, the Ucross Foundation’s first Native American Literary Award, and fellowships from the Truman Capote Trust, Writing By Writers, and Tin House. He lives in the Zuni mountains in New Mexico, and is a faculty member at University of Nevada Reno-Lake Tahoe's low-residency MFA in creative writing program.
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