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 or is forthcoming in?The Drift, McSweeney’s, NOON,?Tin House,?and?Dissent. Along the way he has 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 works as an editor at?McSweeney’s. Formerly, he was reviews editor at The Believer and culture editor at?VICE.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Creative Writing
Writing Alumnus 2009