Geary HobsonGeary Hobson is a retired professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. His areas of teaching and scholarship are Native American literature, American literature and American Studies, and creative writing. He taught at the University of Oklahom from 1988 to 2016. He is the author of a novel, The Last of the Ofos (2000), a book of poetry, Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990), the editor of the anthology, The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (1979), the co-editor of The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (2010), and a collection of short stories, Plain of Jars and Other Stories (2011). He has published poems, fiction, critical essays, and book reviews in more than one-hundred magazines and anthologies. Of Cherokee and Quapaw/Chickasaw ancestry, he has been involved in Native literary studies and teaching for more than forty years, as well as with several national Native American literary organizations. In 2003, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma. Read More Read Less