Brando Skyhorse is an American author and winner of the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2011 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for his novel The Madonnas of Echo Park. He was a professional book editor prior to publishing this book, which was originally named Amexicans. Skyhorse Publishing is named after him.
Skyhorse was born and raised in Echo Park, California and has degrees from Stanford University and from the MFA Writers' Workshop program at UC Irvine. He currently lives in New Jersey with his couch, Big Red. Look for Skyhorse's next publication "Memoirs of a Mexican in Disguise" coming to bookstores near you in Spring 2014.
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