Overheard with Evan Smith

Tommy Orange

Season 9 Episode 13 | 26m 46s  | Video has closed captioning.

Tommy Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, and is a recent graduate from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. His first novel, "There There", is being hailed by The New York Times as “an energetic revelation of a corner of American life.”