Current project:
The Truth Will Out
aa novel of Custer’s Last Stand
Inspired by real events, Siobhan Fallon’s meticulously researched and epic new work-in-progress brings Custer’s Last Stand vividly to life, illuminating a violent and controversial chapter in American history.
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Siobhan’s YouTube channel focuses on Custer's Last Stand & the Seventh Cavalry— officers and soldiers, military spouses and families, enemies and allies, newspapers and books, artists and writers— all the events leading up to the 1876 Little Bighorn fight as well as those that ripple out from it (the Reno Court of Inquiry in 1879 to the Custer Equestrian Statue in 1910, etc).
Siobhan Fallon is the author of the PEN Center USA Literary Fiction Award winning short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, which was also a Best Book Pick of 2011 by The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Public Library, Self Magazine, The New York Times, and The Austin Public Library Mayor’s Book Blub Pick of 2011. Her novel, The Confusion of Languages, set in Jordan during the Arab Spring, led to book events (both in-person and virtual) in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Israel, Indonesia, Belgium, Turkey, Cyprus, and across the United States.
Siobhan’s essays and stories have been featured in The New York Times Modern Love, Washington Post Magazine, NPR’s Morning Edition, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Stars and Stripes, The Huffington Post, Prairie Schooner, Guernica, the anthology Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, among others, and have been performed by both national and international theater groups.
Her current work is inspired by real events and explores the many controversies surrounding the Battle of the Little Bighorn. As a woman and Army spouse, Siobhan tackles unique perspectives of this violent chapter in American history. She also hosts a history-themed YouTube channel, @SiobhanFallon7, which focuses on the US Army’s Seventh Cavalry and military families living on the American frontier.
Siobhan is the wife of an active-duty Army officer who served three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Siobhan, her husband, and their two daughters (and too many cats) currently live in Nicosia, Cyprus.
The Confusion of Languages
"Explores friendships, parenting, and the civilian/military divide. . . . The more we can shrink the yawning chasm between families’ experiences, the better for us all." —The Washington Post
“An incisive examination of friendship and betrayal and a skillful mingling of cultural and domestic themes.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A gripping, cleverly plotted novel with surprising bite.”—Phil Klay, author of Redeployment
You Know When the Men Are Gone
“Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true.”—The New York Times
“Prose that's brave and honest.”—People
“Terrific. . . and terrifically illuminating.”—The Washington Post