A beautiful new cookbook with excellent recipes from their chef Cindy (who I adore), plus work by former Ucross residents (including me). Order it here.


Writer & Papaya Thief
A beautiful new cookbook with excellent recipes from their chef Cindy (who I adore), plus work by former Ucross residents (including me). Order it here.
I have a new short story up in Puerto del Sol, the literary journal at New Mexico State University.
https://www.puertodelsol.org/single-post/brendan-basham-flight-delay
“Catch our first inaugural James Welch Prize reading Sept 16 @ 6 PM MDT — prizewinner Brendan Shay Basham @papayathief reads with judge Sherwin Bitsui @SherwinBitsui as part of the Montana Book Festival @MTBookFest , also presented by Beargrass Writing Retreat @BeargrassWrite
Honored to receive such a prize this year! And humbled to be next to all these other wonderful writers. You can download a broadside from Poetry NW here.
An interview with Wyoming Public Media (January 2021): Diné Author Brendan Basham Talks Ucross Writing Fellowship, New Work | Wyoming Public Media
A write up in the Navajo Times!