SPOTLIGHT: John Whittier Treat

John Whittier Treat, author of “WATERLOO”, which was published in the Summer 2025 issue of Eleventh Hour, has his novel, “The Seventh City of Refuge” out this fall from Phylum Press! “The Seventh City of Refuge” is a contemplation of modern risk set among survivalists in rural eastern Washington State. 

John Whittier Treat has won the Christopher Hewitt Prize for Fiction and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His 2015 novel The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House, was a finalist for the Lambda Prize for Best Gay Fiction. A novella, Maid Service, was published in 2020 and his second novel, First Consonants, came out in 2022. His opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Huffington Post and Out magazine.