About John Yunker

John Yunker is an award-winning author of books, plays and journalism focused on the intersection between humans and animals.

He is the author of novels including The Tourist Trail, Where Oceans Hide Their Dead, Devils Island, and the forthcoming The Standing Dead. His full-length and short plays—including Species of Least Concern and Skip Intro—have been staged and produced by regional companies across the United States.

His plays have been produced by theaters in Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Oregon and Washington DC. The full-length play Meat the Parents was a finalist at the Centre Stage New Play Festival (South Carolina) and semi-finalist in the AACT new play contest. Species of Least Concern was a finalist in the Mountain Playhouse Comedy Festival and Unicorn Theatre New Plays Reading Series and received a staged reading at Capital Stage in Sacramento.

His short stories have been published by a number of literary journals such as Phoebe, Qu, Flyway and Kelp Journal. And his essays and articles have been published in High Country News, The Revelatorem> and others.

He lives in Southern Oregon. You can contact him here.