Tommy Orange is an award-winning author and a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He is best known for his debut novel, There There, which won the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Orange has also written for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. His work focuses on the experiences of Native Americans in the modern world, and he is a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights. Orange is currently working on his second novel, which is due to be released in 2021.