Educated as a scientist but graduated by M.I.T. as a mathematician, Harlan Yarbrough has been a full-time professional entertainer most of his life, including a stint as a regular performer on the prestigious Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. Harlan's repeated attempts to escape the entertainment industry have brought work as a librarian, physics teacher, syndicated newspaper columnist, and city planner, among other occupations.
Harlan lives, writes, and continues to improve his dzonkha vocabulary and pronunciation in Bhutan but visits the US, Australia, and Europe to perform and thereby to recharge his bank account. Harlan has written five novels, three novellas (two published), four novelettes (two published, one forthcoming), and ninety-some short stories, of which fifty-three have been published by sixty literary journals in nine countries. His work has appeared in the Galway Review, Quail Bell, Page & Spine, Indiana Voice Journal, Red Fez, Scarlet Leaf Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern.
