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Steve Yarbrough was born and raised in rural Mississippi.  He earned his MFA at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.  Yarbrough taught at Virginia Tech for four years before accepting a position to teach creative writing at California State University in Fresno.  He also lived briefly in Poland in 1992 and returns regularly.  He and his wife have two daughters.

Yarbrough’s works are usually set in Mississippi because according to him, “when you’ve grownw up in Mississippi, why would you want to write about anyplace else?”

Yarbrough was a finalist in the 2005 PEN/Faulkner award for his work, Prisoners of War.  He is the author of Family Men, Veneer, Oxygen Man, and Visible Spirits.

Read SLR’s interview with Steve Yarbrough.