News & Events

They didn’t get my clans right, but this is a really good article anyway! https://navajotimes.com/ae/people/ucross-residency-helps-brendan-basham-reconnect-with-food-art/ Below is an interview with Wyoming Public Radio, as well.… Read more: Navajo Times

Cooking and Writing Aren’t Too Far Apart Press Release from Ucross What I failed to mention for this release was that this residency inspired a… Read more: Ucross Culinary Residency

In June, students from Austin Peay State University, led by professors of Native American Art and Literature courses, stopped by my house for homemade pizzas… Read more: An Outdoor Seminar

Join me at Glendale Public Library, Sat., March 29, 2-4pm for reading, talk, and q&a. For event scheduling, visit gplaz.org/events.

I’m gonna miss David Lynch’s light as much as his darkness. I grew up watching his films when I was a kid (maybe considered too… Read more: David Lynch

Please join me in celebrating the paperback release of SWIM HOME to the VANISHED! I’d love to see you and sign your books.

Please join me in celebrating the paperback release of SWIM HOME TO THE VANISHED at Brightside Books in downtown Flagstaff on Tuesday, August 20th, 2024.… Read more: Swim Home paperback launch August 20th

The writer has been busy with readings, speaking engagements, and travel, documenting experiences in a gallery. Celebrating the success of “Swim Home,” they are now scheduling the fall launch of the paperback release for August 20, 2024. Exciting news includes visits to bookstores in Seattle, fulfilling a childhood dream. More events are expected, so stay tuned.

I wrote a short essay in which I blather on about swales and an albino fawn for Cynthia Newberry Martin’s How We Spend Our Days,… Read more: How We Spend Our Days

I’ll be in New Hampshire this week visiting classes at Dartmouth and Phillips Exeter Academy, with reading’s in both Hanover and Exeter! Hope to see… Read more: Readings in October

“16 New Books by Indigenous Authors You Should Be Reading”

UPDATE 9-14-23 Tonight’s reading will be available to livestream here, 7:30pm Alaska time: https://alaska.zoom.us/j/86445852561 This week I am visiting the AK Native Writers Workshop, and… Read more: Papayas in Alaska

New article up at LitHub! A peek into the process…

I got to answer some great questions from a friend I met at Ucross. I talk a little about the book, the process, and having… Read more: Interview with J.C. Hallman at Brooklyn Rail

Swim Home to the Vanished is one of Powell’s Bookstore’s Picks for August! This makes me so happy, to be on display at the best… Read more: Swim Home is one of Powell’s Picks for the month of August

Please join us in welcoming Swim Home to the Vanished into the world on August 22nd, 7 PM, at Greedy Reads Remington in Baltimore! Register… Read more: Upcoming Events

Really excited that Swim Home to the Vanished is in the SF Chronicle as one of “17 books we can’t wait to read this summer”!… Read more: “17 books we can’t wait to read this summer”