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 2011, Yeh worked on a new draft of a novel manuscript entitled, I Love and Understand You and Would Be Perfect to You Now. He also completed several short stories. During his 2024 residency, he wrote the prologue and first two chapters of his novel-in-progress, Open Book. He also drafted the third and fourth chapters of the manuscript, and revised a significant portion of the second section. A prior excerpt from the novel was published in McSweeney's Quarterly in 2022.
