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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.
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