James Yeh

James Yeh is a writer, editor, and journalist. His reporting and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Believer, Columbia Journalism Review, and VICE. His fiction has appeared in the Drift, McSweeney’s Quarterly, NOON, Tin House, and Dissent. He has also co-translated Alejandro Zambra for Harper’s, published poetry in New York Tyrant, and produced a podcast segment for the Organist. Yeh graduated from Clemson University in 2005 with a BA in English; he earned an MFA in fiction from Columbia University in 2009. He was named an emerging writers fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2011; a writer-in-residence at the Hub City Writers Project in 2014; and a visiting writer at the Black Mountain Institute in 2019. He currently works as the deputy editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, and teaches writing at Columbia University, where he is the nonfiction advisor of the undergraduate creative writing department. Prior to that, he worked as the reviews editor at the Believer and the culture editor at VICE, and he helped to found Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is at work on a novel.