Geary Hobson

Geary Hobson, of Cherokee-Quapaw/Chickasaw background, began his work as a student and educator after serving six years in the United States Marine Corps (two of which were reserve time). He was among the first instructors/professors throughout the nation to begin teaching Native American literature, as well as Native Studies in general.

Professor Hobson has written six books and edited two others. He has published approximately 130 articles and book reviews on Native American and American literature and cultural studies. He was one of the founders of the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas (NWCA), an international consortium of more than five hundred Native and Non-Native writers and scholars throughout the Americas. In 2003, he received the NWCA annual Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Written:

• Deer Hunting and Other Poems, 1990
• The Last of the Ofos, 2000 (novel)
• Plain of Jars and Other Stories, 2011 (short stories)
• The Road Where the People Cried/ nunna da-ul Tsunyi, 2020 (poetry)
• A.B.C. (novel, currently in press)
• Down Arkansas Way and Other Stories (currently in press)

Edited:

• The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, 1979
• The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (Edited with Janet McAdams and Kathryn Walkiewicz), 2010