Dwight Yates

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Dwight Yates (1942 - November 12, 2023) was an American writer and former lecturer at the University of California, Riverside. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Northwest Review, Zyzzyva , Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review.

Born in Helena, Montana, Yates served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania (1964–66), [1] as a secondary school master and medical practitioner, and later as a soldier in the U.S. military. [2] While studying in Arizona he met his wife, Nancy Carrick. [1] He lectured on creative writing at the University of California, Riverside for 13 years retiring in 2002.

Yates was a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in 1992 and was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Fiction in 1993.[ citation needed ]

His first collection of short stories, Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones, won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award from Snake Nation Press in 2005, [2] while his second collection of short fiction, Bring Everybody, won the inaugural Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press. [3]

In 2007, Yates was awarded his second NEA fellowship while he continued work on a long-deferred novel. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dwight Yates 1942-2023". www.peacecorpsconnect.org/. Natl. Peace Corps Assn. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
  2. 1 2 Snake Nation Press -Dwight Yates, titles and information Archived July 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press Archived June 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ NEA FY 2008 grant awards - Literature Fellowships (Prose) Archived November 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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