Thomas M. Yeahpau contributed a story to the 2003 anthology Night Gone, Day is Still Coming: Stories and Poems By American Indian Teens and Young Adults, edited by Anette Piña Ochoa, Betsy Franco, and Traci L. Gourdine. Shortly thereafter, he gathered his own collection of original short stories, and the result is X-Indian Chronicles. Thomas M. Yeahpau lives in Los Angeles, California.