Dwight Yates is a writer former lecturer at the University of California, Riverside. His fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Northwest Review, ZYZZYVA, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, and Sonora Review. Born in Montana, Yates has worked as a secondary school master, medical practitioner in East Africa, and soldier in the U.S. military. He lectured at the University of California, Riverside for 13 years retiring after the 2001-2002 school year. In 2007Yates was awarded his second NEA fellowship while he continued work on a long-deferred novel.