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Andy Young [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana US
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 [2]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Twitter/X: 
@andimuse
Born in: 
Elmhurst, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Oak Hill, WV
West Virginia
Website: 
https://andyyoung.org [3]
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).

 

 

Education: 
Warren Wilson College
What I'm reading now: 
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go by William Woolfitt
Writers Retreats: 
Vermont Studio Center
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Teenagers

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