David R. Yale has had short stories published in Midstream, Response, Pangolin Review, Newtown Literary, Blue Collar Review, and Jewish Braille Review. His novel, Becoming JiJi won...view moreDavid R. Yale has had short stories published in Midstream, Response, Pangolin Review, Newtown Literary, Blue Collar Review, and Jewish Braille Review. His novel, Becoming JiJi won First Place, Contemporary Fiction, in the 2018 Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards. His novel, No Free Soup for Millionaires was a finalist in the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society 2018 Novel-in-Progress Contest.Yale has read from his fiction at Union College (Schenectady NY), Claremont College (California), The University of Minnesota, The Mendota (Minnesota) Jazz Emporium, and UCLA.With a blue-collar, working class outlook, Yale writes about one of the most overlooked communities in the contemporary fiction scene. Find out more about him at https://davidryale.com/view less