ABOUT HARLAN YARBROUGH
Educated as a scientist and graduated as a mathematician by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harlan Yarbrough has earned his living as a full-time professional entertainer and musician most of his life, including a stint as a regular performer on the prestigious Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Harlan has worked professionally as a jazz violinist and vocalist and has also worked professionally singing and playing Western Swing, bluegrass, celtic music, country music, and folk music on mandolin, fiddle, guitar, banjo, celtic harp, mouth harp, and dobro. Harlan ’s repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics and mathematics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city (land use) planner, among several other occupations.
Harlan lives, writes, and continues to improve his dzonkha vocabulary and pronunciation in Bhutan whenever possible. He has an abiding affection for the valley of the Paro Chu above Satsam but visits North America, Australia, New Zealand, and sometimes Europe to perform and thereby to recharge his bank account. Although Harlan settled in Bhutan, she lived, performed, and taught in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Denmark in previous decades and still thinks of both New Zealand and Far North Queensland as home. Harlan has written five novels, three novellas (two published), three novelettes (two published), and fifty-some short stories, of which nearly forty have been published in seven countries. His work has appeared in the Galway Review, Indiana Voice Journal, Red Fez, Veronica, Scarlet Leaf Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern. His story “While The Iron Is Hot” won the 2019 Fair Australia Prize.
HIS PUBLICATIONS
“Moving On” The Blotter February 2020 ISSN 1549-0351
http://www.blotterrag.com/pdfs/2020-02.pdf
“Luster” Tuck, May 18, 2017 ISSN 2371-350X
http://tuckmagazine.com/2017/05/18/fiction-luster-doing-lambent-walk/
“Diffferent” Wilderness House Literary Review, Vol. 8, #2 ISSN 2156-0153
https://www.whlreview.com/no-12.3/fiction/HarlanYarbrough.pdf
“He Stopped” Adelaide Literary Magazine, Year II, Number 7, Volume I, June 2017 issue
May 15, 2017 ISBN-10:1547023511 ISBN-13: 978-1547023516
http://adelaidemagazine.org/f_hyarbrough.html
“Consonance” Setu, June 2017 ISSN 2475-1359
https://www.setumag.com/2017/06/consonance-Harlan-Yarbrough.html
“Family Portraits” published by Phenomenal Literature ISSN 2347-5951
https://www.readwhere.com/read/2272507/Phenomenal-Literature-A-Global-Journal-Devoted-to-Language-Literature/Vol-4-Issue-1#dual/52/1
AWARDS
“While The Iron Is Hot” Fair Australia Prize (Overland Magazine) as Cora Tate
http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-237/fair-australia-prize-migrant-worker/