Brando Skyhorse&rsquo\;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. His latest novel\, My Name Is Iris\, was named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 .
\nSkyhorse has also co-edited an anthology\, We Wear The Mask: 15 True Stories Of Passing in America (Beacon Press\, 2017). He has been awarded fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation&rsquo\;s Bellagio Center in Lake Como\, Italy\, the Ucross Foundation\, Art Omi\, the Bread loaf Writers&rsquo\; Conference\, and was the 2014-2015 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-In-Washington at George Washington University.
\nSkyhorse is an associate professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington wh ere he directs the creative writing program.
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