Brando Skyhorse’s debut novel, The Madonnas of Echo Park, received the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Take This Man: A Memoir was named by Kirkus Reviews as one the Best Nonfiction Books of the year. Skyhorse has been awarded fellowships at Ucross Foundation and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He is an associate professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington.