Steve Yarbrough (fiction) is the author of three short-story collections, Family Men (Louisiana State University Press, 1990), Mississippi History, and Veneer (University of Missouri Press, 1994 and 1998), and five novels: The Oxygen Man (MacAdam/Cage, 1999, winner of the Mississippi Author's Award, the California Book Award, and an award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters), Visible Spirits (Knopf, 2001), Prisoners of War (Knopf, 2004, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), The End of California (Knopf, 2006), and Safe from the Neighbors (Knopf, 2010). He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize and was recently named winner of the 2010 Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Oxford American, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories 1999, Best American Mystery Stories 1998, and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. A professor at Emerson College, he lives with his wife in Stoneham, Massachusetts.