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Tommy Orange
Born 1982
Tommy Orange (born January 19, 1982) is an American novelist and writer born and raised in Oakland, California. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he holds a BS from Expression College and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he also teaches. His debut novel, There There (2018), was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the American Book Award. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2025.
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On LuvemBooks, we've reviewed The Best Short Stories 2026.
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Tommy Orange is the Oakland-raised, Cheyenne and Arapaho novelist whose debut There There was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and American Book Award winner, and who received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2025. We currently have 1 book reviewed under his name: The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners, which he edited, selecting twenty prizewinning stories from thousands published in magazines over the prior year by an international roster of celebrated and emerging writers.
- Where should I start?
- The only book by Tommy Orange we've reviewed is The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners, so it's the natural starting point on LuvemBooks. As editor, he chose twenty prizewinning stories from thousands published in magazines over the prior year, featuring both celebrated names and emerging voices from an international roster. If you want a survey of what he considers the best short fiction being written today, this is the place to begin.
- What's their writing style?
- In the book we've reviewed, Tommy Orange appears as an editor rather than an author, so what we can speak to is his curatorial taste: he selected twenty stories from thousands of magazine submissions, favoring a mix of celebrated names and emerging voices from an international roster. Series editor Jenny Minton Quigley's introduction, as quoted by Literary Hub, calls the resulting collection 'truly genius.' His broader profile — an MFA-trained writer who teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts — suggests a deep engagement with the craft of short fiction.
- Books we've reviewed
- We've reviewed 1 book by Tommy Orange. The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners, which he edited with series editor Jenny Minton Quigley, gathers twenty prizewinning stories selected from thousands published in magazines over the prior year, from an international roster spanning celebrated names and emerging voices.
- What genre do they write?
- On LuvemBooks, the one Tommy Orange title we've reviewed falls under Short Stories: The Best Short Stories 2026: The O. Henry Prize Winners, an anthology of twenty prizewinning magazine stories he selected as editor. His own best-known work, There There, is a novel. His writing life is rooted in literary fiction, backed by an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he also teaches.
- What should I read after The Best Short Stories 2026?
- The natural next step is Tommy Orange's own fiction: his debut novel There There (2018), a Pulitzer Prize finalist that won the American Book Award. It's the work that established his reputation and earned him a MacArthur Fellowship in 2025. Note that while There There is mentioned in his bio here, our review coverage on LuvemBooks currently extends only to the anthology he edited.
Who is Tommy Orange?
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What should I read after The Best Short Stories 2026?
Who is Tommy Orange?
Tommy Orange, born January 19, 1982, is an American novelist born and raised in Oakland, California, and an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He holds a BS from Expression College and an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where he also teaches. His debut novel, There There (2018), was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the American Book Award, and he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2025.
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