Alexander Yates


Alexander Yates is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

The son of an American diplomat, Yates grew up in the Caribbean and South America, graduating high school in the Philippines. He earned a BA from the University of Virginia in 2004 and an MFA from Syracuse University in 2009. After graduating, Yates took a job at the American Embassy in the Philippines, and has since served with the US Agency for International Development in Rwanda and Afghanistan. He has published one novel for adults, and two for young adults.
His fiction and essays have also appeared in Salon, The Guardian, Recommended Reading, and the Kenyon Review.
He lives in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Awards

Prior to graduating from the MFA program at Syracuse University, Yates won the Joyce Carol Oates award in both fiction and poetry. His first novel, Moondogs, was listed among the best debuts of 2011 by Kirkus Reviews. His second novel, The Winter Place, was a selection of the Junior Library Guild and the Kansas State Reading Circle.

Works

Novels