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Victor Yates

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Born

in Jacksonville, The United States

Website

http://victoryates.wordpress.com/

Genre

Fiction, Classics, Contemporary

Influences

Toni Morrison, Michelle Tea, Staceyann Chin, James Baldwin, Mattilda B ...more

Member Since

December 2015

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Victor Yates was raised in Jacksonville, Florida and now lives in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Windy City Times, Gorgeous, and Edge. As a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Otis College, he is the recipient of an Ahmanson Foundation grant.

He is the winner of the Elma Stuckey Writing Award (1st place in poetry). Two of his poems were included in the anthology, “For Colored Boys,” which was edited by Keith Boykin. The anthology won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award.

Also, he has taught writing workshops at the University of Southern California (for the Models of Pride Conference), Job Corps, Whaley Middle School (Compton), Gindling Hilltop Camp (Malibu), and Bright Star Secondary Charter Academy (Ingle ...more

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