Dwight Yates (1942 - November 12, 2023) was an American writer and former lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.
Born in Helena, Montana, Yates served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania (1964–66),[1] as a secondary school master and medical practitioner, and later as a soldier in the U.S.
[1] He lectured on creative writing at the University of California, Riverside for 13 years retiring in 2002.
Yates was a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in 1992 and was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Fiction in 1993.
[citation needed] His first collection of short stories, Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones, won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award from Snake Nation Press in 2005,[2] while his second collection of short fiction, Bring Everybody, won the inaugural Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press.