Books: THE BELIEF IN Angels She Writes Press (2014)
Anthologies: Mile High Poetry, Moments of Solitude, My Mother's Dress
Newspapers/Magazines: The Hullonian, TLC, OutFront, The Advocate
Raised on a tiny, New England peninsula, J. Dylan Yates pursued her BFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder.
THE BELIEF IN Angels, Dylan’s debut novel, was written over the course of many years while she attempted a number of BFA related jobs, including: waitress,librarian, theater box office sales, cross country car dealership driver, public school teaching, corporate training, real estate, nursing, interior design, parenting and reluctant housewifery.
Dylan’s next novel, SZAJA’S STORY, focused on the character created in THE BELIEF IN Angels, pulls the reader back to the Ukranian orchards of Szaja Trautman’s tragic childhood, and traces his ultimate journey to America via the desperate Ukranian refugee work camps of the ‘20’s, his amazing survival of both the Majdanek death camp and the torpedoing of refugees aboard the Mefkura, and recounts Szaja’s fascinating experiences in the post-war Parisian couture houses.
THE BELIEF IN Angels won the USA BEST BOOKS AWARD as well as the Alexis Masters Scholarship for Spiritual Writing at the February 2012 San Francisco Writers Conference. THE BELIEF IN Angels also won a Los Angeles Book Festival Award.
Dylan worked with Boulder County’s Voices for Children program as a CASA volunteer for 15 years and now volunteers with the Big Sister program in San Diego. She lives in San Diego with her partner and a talking cat. Her son, Jaime, is a professional musician.
Her poetry has been published in various anthologies, chapbooks, newspapers, and journals.
