Vestal McIntyre

{{short description|American author}}

{{BLP sources|date=July 2009}}

{{infobox writer

|name=Vestal McIntyre

|birth_place=Nampa, Idaho, U.S.

|occupation=Author

|nationality=American

|alma_mater=Tufts University

}}

Vestal McIntyre is an American author currently based in the UK. He was born in Nampa, Idaho, and educated at Tufts University, Massachusetts. His first collection of short stories, You Are Not the One, was published by the independent Scottish publisher Canongate in 2006.{{Cite web |url=http://www.meetatthegate.com/component/option,com_author_book/edition_id,708/title_id,750/ |title=You Are Not the One |publisher=Canongate Books |access-date=2009-06-16}} His follow-up book, Lake Overturn, was published in 2009,{{Cite news|title = Book Review: 'Lake Overturn' by Vestal McIntyre|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/18/AR2009051802784.html|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = 2009-05-19|access-date = 2016-01-23|issn = 0190-8286|language = en-US|first = Stephen|last = Amidon}} and won the GrubStreet National Book Prize and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction.