Steve Yarbrough (born August 29, 1956) is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College.

[2] Yarbrough's major works include the novels The Realm of Last Chances (2013), Safe From The Neighbors (2010), The End of California (2006), Prisoners of War (2004), Visible Spirits (2001) and The Oxygen Man (1999), as well as short story collections such as Family Men (1990), Mississippi History (1994) and Veneer (1998).

Yarbrough's latest novel, The Unmade World, was published by Unbridled Books in 2018.

His work has been translated into Dutch, Japanese and Polish and published in the United Kingdom.

He is married to the Polish essayist and literary translator Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough and they have two daughters, Antonina Parris-Yarbrough and Lena Yarbrough.