Draft:David Kingston Yeh

David Kingston Yeh is a Canadian author, educator, and LGBTQ2S counsellor currently based in Toronto. He is the author of short fiction and most notably for the Boy at the Edge series.

Yeh grew up in Kingston, Ontario and graduated from Queen's University with an MA in cultural sociology. He has also graduated from George Brown Theatre School and studied in Saas Fee, Switzerland for Advanced Graduate Studies in Expressive Arts.

Yeh and his work has been extensively covered by CBC Books, including their "Writers to Watch" list in 2018 and has been selected as a reader for the CBC Short Story Prize.

Boy at the Edge Series
Yeh's best known and most recent work is the Boy at the Edge trilogy, which follows David Garneau, an adolescent gay hockey player and his experiences with love, friendship, and coming to terms with his identity.

The series is set in Toronto in the 2000s, which David has stated he has "personal ties" to. In an interview, Yeh stated that, "Toronto is where I found community and family, and where I “grew up” as a gay man".

The Boy at the Edge Trilogy follows David from his first year in university and spans his twenties. Yeh expressed his motivation to write about a young adult rather than a teenager figuring out their sexuality, stating "There’s already a wealth of YA literature addressing sexual and gender identity issues. Writing The B-Side of Daniel Garneau, I wanted to connect with a more mature, twenty-something readership". The first novel, A Boy at the Edge of the World, is described as a "a coming-of-age novel that explores the variegations of sex, intimacy, and queer desire. It is both a rollicking dramedy and a philosophical reflection," where David traverses the challenges of adolescence and the search for family. The trilogy continues with these themes throughout and the introduction of new characters and David's relationships with them make up much of the change and conflict of the series.