Steve Yates

Steve was born and reared in Springfield, Missouri, and has lived twenty-six years in Flowood, Mississippi. Most recently, he authored The Lakes of Southern Hollow: A Novel released by Madville Publishing in July of 2024. He won the inaugural Knickerbocker Prize when New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff chose his novella, Sandy and Wayne, for publication first in Big Fiction, and then later as a book from Dock Street Press. He won the Juniper Prize, and University of Massachusetts Press published his story collection Some Kinds of Love. He also authored the novels The Legend of the Albino Farm (Unbridled Books), and Morkan's Quarry (Moon City Press), among others. He's a parishioner at St. Paul Catholic Church in Flowood and husband to Tamara Gebhart Yates. He is Associate Director / Marketing Director at University Press of Mississippi in Jackson.