Andy Young

Poet

New Orleans
US
Email: 
andimuse@gmail.com

Author's Bio

Andy Young's second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon Departed, was chosen for the inaugural Patricia Spears Jones Award and will be published by Camperdown NYC. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared, or is forthcoming, in such journals as The Southern Review, Pank, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. Her translations from the Arabic, with Khaled Hegazzi, were included in the Norton anthology Language for a New Century. Her work has also been featured in jewelry, visual art, and contemporary and flamenco dance productions.

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)
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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:
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:
About Place Journal
,
Appalachian Heritage
,
Bayou Magazine
,
Bellingham Review
,
Cincinnati Review
,
Copper Nickel
,
Cortland Review
,
Dialogist
,
Ecotone
,
Exquisite Corpse
,
Florida Review
,
Guernica Magazine
,
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: 
  •   Winner of the inaugural Patricia Spears Jones Award for a woman’s second full-length collection, 2021.
  •   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: 
I Burned at the Feast by Arseny Tarkovsky

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
Elmhurst, IL
Illinois
Raised in: 
Oak Hill, WV
West Virginia
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Last update: May 14, 2022