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John Treat

John Whittier Treat, a resident of Seattle since 1983, has published many short stories—one was a winner of the Christopher Hewitt Prize and another was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is the author of a novel, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE YELLOW HOUSE, which was a finalist was the 2016 Lambda Literary Foundation Prize for Best Gay Fiction, and a 2020 novella, MAID SERVICE. His opinion pieces have appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, HUFFINGTON POST, LITHUB and OUT magazine.