Congratulations to MacArthur Fellow, Tommy Orange!

Oakland writer Tommy Orange is one of 22 people selected this year to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, opens a new window. The fellowships are given to celebrate, and help fund the creative pursuits of, outstanding individuals working in any field. Check out one of his titles for your next read. Read more..., opens a new window

Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather’s shooting in There There.

There There follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.

The Decameron Project is a collection of short stories originally commissioned by "The New York Times Magazine" as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird is a collection of Kafka-inspired short stories by prizewinning, bestselling writers, including Tommy Orange.

Fourteen Days is a surprising and irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice - from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng.