Andy Young

Poet

New Orleans, LA

Louisiana US

Website:

andyyoung.org

Twitter/X:

@andimuse

Author's Bio

Andy Young's second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in October 2024. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Identity Theory, Drunken Boat, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She and her partner, Khaled Hegazzi, translate poems from Arabic that have been published in Southern Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Norton Anthology Language for a New Century. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers, her work has been translated into several languages, featured in classical and electronic music, in flamenco and modern dance performances, and in jewelry, tattoos, and public buses. https://bit.ly/andyyoung

Education:

Warren Wilson College MFA

Writers Retreats:

Vermont Studio Center

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring (New York University Press, 2020)

We Begin Here (Interlink Publishing Group, 2018)

Nasty Women's Poetry Anthology (Lost Horse Press, 2017)

Red Sky: Poems on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women (Sable Books, 2016)

Language for a New Century (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015)

The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. IV (Texas Review Press, 2012)

The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume IV: Louisiana (Texas Review Press, 2011)

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (University of California Press, 2011)

Best New Poets 2009 (University of Virginia Press, 2009)

Another South (University of Alabama Press, 2003)

What Have You Lost (Greenwillow Books, 1999)

Books:

Museum of the Soon to Depart (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2024)

John Swenson Dynamicron (Dancing Girl Press, 2019)

All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos, 2014)

The People is Singular (Press Street Press, 2012)

All Fires the Fire (Faulkner House Books, 2003)

Mine (Lavender Ink, 2000)

Journals:

Dialogist

Exquisite Corpse

How 2

Los Angeles Review of Books

Mesechabe

Mind the Gap

Mizna: Prose, Poetry, Art Exploring Arab America

New Laurel Review

New Orleans Review

New World Writing

One

Pank

Peauxdunque Review

Pierogi Press

Prairie Schooner

Snow Apple

Southern Humanities Review

Southern Review

Spoon River Poetry Review

Stinging Fly

storySouth

SWWIM Every Day

Texas Observer

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

The Volta

Third Coast

Under a Warm Green Linden

Words Without Borders

Prizes won:

Runner-up for the 2021 and 2020 Words and Music Writing Competitions, chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Beth Ann Fennelly, respectively.
Kallenberg Tower Artist-in-Residence, Shreveport, LA (2019).
Poems featured on Poetry Daily (2019) and Verse Daily (2015).
Finalist for Split Lip Magazine’s 2019 contest.
Finalist, Southern Humanities Review Auburn Witness Prize, honoring poet Jake Adam York (2018).
Finalist, Black Warrior Review’s Writers Award for nonfiction (2017).
Finalist, Consequence Magazine Women Writing War Award (2017).
First Place, West Virginia Writers Network, Essay category (2017).
Finalist, Barbara Deming Fund Award (2017).
Third Place, Women’s National Book Association Poetry Award, (2016).
Winner, Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition, (April 2015).

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go by William Woolfitt

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any, Teenagers

Born in:

Elmhurst, IL

Illinois

Raised in:

Oak Hill, WV

West Virginia

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Last update: Aug 02, 2024