John Brandon

Associate Professor - Creative Writing; Director - Exempt; Program Director - CWP

Biography

John Brandon is the author of four novels, Arkansas, Citrus County, A Million Heavens, and Ivory Shoals and a short story collection, Further Joy, all with McSweeney's. Brandon's debut novel, Arkansas, was adapted into a motion picture in 2020, starring Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth, Clark Duke, John Malkovich, Michael K. Williams, Eden Brolin, and Vivica A. Fox.

His shorter work has appeared in Oxford American, The Believer, ESPN the Magazine, GQ, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The New York Times Magazine, and numerous university journals. For two seasons, he wrote about college football for Grantland.com. 

He holds an undergraduate degree from University of Florida and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He's recently spent time as the Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing at University of Mississippi, and as the Tickner Writing Fellow at Gilman School, in Baltimore, and is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Fellowship.

Ivory Shoals is available for pre-order here.

Publications

Ivory Shoals
McSweeney's, 2021

Further Joy
McSweeney's, 2014

A Million Heavens
McSweeney's, 2012

Citrus County
McSweeney's, 2010

Arkansas
McSweeney's, 2008