A Conversation with James Yeh: 3/10 @ 12PM PT / 3PM ET

Join Kaya Press for a conversation with James Yeh—writer and editor at Columbia University—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close look at the editorial process behind Francisco González’s “Serranos”! Register at bit.ly/firstpass3.

James Yeh is a writer, editor, journalist, and educator. His reporting and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Guardian, the Believer, Columbia Journalism Review, and VICE. His fiction has appeared in the Drift, McSweeney’s Quarterly, NOON, Tin House, and Dissent. Along the way he has also cotranslated Alejandro Zambra for Harper’s Magazine, published poetry in New York Tyrant, and produced a podcast segment for The Organist. A two-time MacDowell fellow (2011 and 2024), he was named an emerging writers fellow at the Center for Fiction in 2011, a writer-in-residence at the Hub City Writers Project in 2014, and a visiting writer at the Black Mountain Institute in 2019. Formerly, he was the deputy editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, features editor at The Believer, and culture editor at VICE, where stories he edited were selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2024, the 2024 O. Henry Prize Winners, and The Best American Travel Writing 2022. He currently teaches writing and editing at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn.