Andrew Yim
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About
The travel bug bit hard on graduation from college in 1993. Four years of Russian language study in hand, I took a job as an intern editor at a publishing house in Moscow, Russia. A year later, a classified ad in the jobs section of the Moscow Times led me to Almaty, Kazakstan, where I spent 3 years working as a field hand for development projects.
A hard pivot after those vagabound years found me in graduate school and then a career as a primary care nurse practitioner. I write before the commute and have published stories and essays on a variety of topics. I'm currently writing a full length novel of historical fiction (see Work in Progress).
When not writing or in clinic, you'll likely find me out on the trails with my content editor, partner in crime and wife Lina, planning the next plot twist or adventure.
Work in Progress
The Venetian Ghetto, 1630
To pay off a gambling debt, Solomon Zarfati, a brilliant but troubled Jewish physician, must tend to an injured Turk in the back room of a brothel.
What follows is a tale of ruin and redemption, deception and revelation, that takes the reader from the tenements of the Venetian ghetto to the underworld of Constantinople.