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C. Dale Young

C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of The Day Underneath the Day (TriQuarterlyBooks, 2001), The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007), and TORN (Four Way Books, forthcoming in 2012). He is a previous winner of the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Young has taught at several writers' conferences, including the Catskill Poetry Workshops and the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He lives in San Francisco with the biologist and composer, Jacob Bertrand. Email him at cdaleyoung [at] cdaleyoung [dot] com.

NEW: DEC 4, 2008 C. Dale Young is the recipient of a 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Young is one of 42 Fellows selected from an applicant pool of greater than 900. The Fellowship is valued $25,000.

C. Dale Young, poet