<p>Known for heartwarming portrayals of ordinary people, <strong>David R. Yale</strong> has been influenced by Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, Marge Piercy, and Barbara Kingsolver. Living and working in blue collar communities in Brooklyn, Minneapolis, and rural Arkansas, as well as a socialist utopian community in New York, have also shaped his narrative.</p><p>David’s fiction and poetry has been published in <em>Midstream,</em> <em>Response, Newtown Literary, and Pangolin Review.</em> His first novel in the <em>Shingle Creek Sagas</em>, <em>Becoming JiJi,</em> won First Place in the 2018 <em>Writer’s Digest</em> Self-Published eBook Awards Contemporary Fiction category, and was a quarter-finalist in the<strong> </strong>2019 <em>ScreenCraft</em> Cinematic Book Competition.</p><p>With a blue-collar, working class outlook, Yale writes about one of the most overlooked communities in the contemporary fiction scene.</p>
