Steve Yarbrough

Steve Yarbrough was born and raised in Mississippi and currently is a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston. His novels include The Unmade World (Unbridled Books, 2018), winner of the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, The Realm of Last Chances (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), Safe from the Neighbors (Alfred A Knopf, 2010), The End of California (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), Prisoner of War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which was a finalist for the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Oxygen Man (MacMurray & Beck, 1999), winner of the 1999 California Book Award, 2000 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Fiction, and 2000 Mississippi Authors Award. In 2010, he also received the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence.