Brando Skyhorse is an American author and winner of the 2011 PEN/Hemingway Award, 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

Skyhorse Publishing

Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., known as Skyhorse Publishing, was founded in 2006 and is located in New York, NY. It is an American independent book publishing company, and is distributed by W. W. Norton & Company. The current president and publisher is founder Tony Lyons, who named it after Brando...

 is named after him.

Skyhorse was born and raised in Echo Park, California and has degrees from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 and from the MFA Writers' Workshop program at UC Irvine.