Steve Yates is the award-winning author of The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel (Unbridled Books), Some Kinds of Love: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press / Juniper Prize Winner), and Morkan's Quarry: A Novel (Moon City Press). His novella, Sandy and Wayne, was chosen by New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff as the inaugural winner of the Knickerbocker Prize, published in a letter press edition by Big Fiction and later published as a book by Dock Street Press. He is associate director / marketing director of University Press of Mississippi, and lives in Flowood with his wife, Tammy.