Brendan Shay Basham

Brendan Shay Basham (Diné) is a writer, artist, educator, and recovering chef, born in Alaska and raised in northern Arizona. He received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and his Bachelor's from the Evergreen State College. Swim Home to the Vanished is his first novel.Basham's work has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Poetry Northwest, Santa Fe Literary Review, Red Ink, Yellow Medicine Review, among other publications. He is a recipient of Poetry Northwest’s inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous Writers, the Ucross Foundation’s first Native American Literary Award, and fellowships from the Truman Capote Trust, Tin House, and Writing By Writers.He currently lives in Baltimore where he runs a make-believe café.