Alexander Yates
Biography
Alexander Yates
Alex was born in Haiti, and grew up in Mexico, Bolivia and the Philippines. After a few years working as a contractor for the US State Department, he decided to quit and pursue writing full time. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University, where he won Joyce Carol Oates awards in both fiction and poetry.
His fiction has been published in Salon, Recommended Reading, The Kenyon Review and American Fiction. Short work has also appeared or is forthcoming in anthologies from This Land and Gigantic. His first novel, MOONDOGS, was published by Doubleday in 2011, and was on several year-end best lists. His second novel.
Alex lives in Rwanda with his wife and cats.
Alexander Yates
- Website: www.alexanderyates.com/
