James Yeh is a writer, journalist, editor, and educator. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Drift, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The New York Times,Tthe Guardian, NOON, Tin House, the Believer, BOMB, Columbia Journalism Review, and Dissent. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Center for Fiction, MacDowell, and the Hub City Writers Project.
A graduate of the Columbia University MFA Program, he now teaches there and is a contributing editor at BOMB. He was an emerging writers fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2011 and a writer-in-residence at the Hub City Writers Project in 2014. A founding editor of Gigantic, he has served as deputy editor at McSweeney's Quarterly, features editor at the Believer, and culture editor at VICE.
At MacDowell in 2024, the native of South Carolina worked on his first book, a novel drawn from life about unconventional fatherhood and eldercare.
