Wry, sly, and endlessly inventive, Dwight Yates’s story collection explores familial love, fragile love, finished love. His stories tease a subtle slide of recognition down a reader’s vertebrae, and a half-smile of remembrance at the trombones of our former lives.”

-Susan Straight

After winning the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for Haywire Hearts and SlideTrombones, Dwight Yates published a second collection of stories, Bring Everybody, which was awarded The Juniper Prize in 2006. Currently (2008), he is trying to find a home for a novella-length work that resists easy classification while enjoying the support of a fellowship from the NEA--his second--funding
enabling him to work on a long-deferred novel.

Dwight Yates was born in Montana and has spent most of his life west of the 100th meridian. He attended university, then worked as a secondary school master and medical practitioner in East Africa prior to serving in the U.S. military. Since the early eighties, he has been teaching writing at the University of California, Riverside. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and acknowledged with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the winner of the Serena MacDonald Kennedy Fiction Award for his collection of short stories, Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones.

Dwight is also winner of the University of Massachusett's 2005 Juniper Prize for Fiction.

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