Vestal McIntyre

Vestal McIntyre was born and raised the youngest of seven children outside Nampa, Idaho. He attended Tufts University, and has lived in Boston and New York City.Lake Overturn: A Novel was published by HarperCollins in April, 2009. The Washington Post said, "In Lake Overturn, McIntyre has created a vast, intricate lattice of relationships, reminiscent of the novels of Richard Russo....Here is an author capable of handling even the most noxious elements when he stirs his American backwater." And Out Magazine said, "Richly imagined and fully realized, Overturn has given us what we didn’t know we were waiting for: the next Great Idahoan Novel." Lake Overturn was named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Washington Post Best Book of 2009, won the Grub Street National Book Award 2010 and a Lambda Literary Award, and was nominated for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award.Vestal has been awarded fiction fellowships from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His collection You Are Not the One: Stories was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and won a 2006 Lambda Literary Award.His stories have appeared in Tin House Magazine, Open City 11: Octo Ate Them All, Open City 22, From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up, Between Men: Best New Gay Fiction, and several other anthologies.Vestal now lives in London, where he is working on a second novel and a collection of stories based on his years in New York City.