C. Dale Young (born April 18, 1969) is an American
poet
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and
writer
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,
physician
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,
editor
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and
educator
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of Asian and Latino descent.
Life
Young writes and publishes poetry and short stories, practices medicine full-time, and teaches in the
Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
Warren Wilson College (WWC) is a private liberal arts college in Swannanoa, North Carolina. It is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service as every student must complete a requisite course of study, work an on-campus j ...
. For 19 years, he edited poetry for ''
New England Review
The ''New England Review'' is an American quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. It was established in 1978 by Sydney Lea and Jay Parini. From 1982 till 1990, the magazine was named ''New England Review & Bread Loaf Quart ...
'', stepping down from the post of poetry editor there in August 2014. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including ''
The Atlantic Monthly
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'', ''
The New Republic
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'', ''
The Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip ...
'', ''POETRY'', ''
Yale Review
''The Yale Review'' is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
It was founded in 1819 as ''The Christian Spectator'' to support Evangelicalism. Over time it began to publish more on hi ...
'', and elsewhere. His work has also been included in anthologies, including ''The
Best American Poetry
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
''.
Young grew up in south Florida, and his early work is inspired by the tropical landscape of his home state. He holds degrees from
Boston College
Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
(BS 1991) and the
University of Florida
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(MFA 1993 and MD 1997). He completed his medical internship at the Riverside Regional Medical Center and his residency in
radiation
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* ''electromagnetic radiation'', such as radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visi ...
oncology
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at the
University of California, San Francisco
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.
He lives in
San Francisco, California
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.
Poetry
Collections
*''Prometeo'', poems (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...
, 2021)
*''The Halo'', poems (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...
, 2016)
*''Torn'', poems (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...
, 2011)
*''The Second Person'', poems (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...
, 2007)
*''The Day Underneath the Day'', poems (Northwestern University Press, 2001)
Limited Edition
*''Torn'', letter-press broadside (Mad River Press, 2004)
Fiction
Collections
*''The Affliction'', novel-in-stories (
Four Way Books
Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, New York, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well ...
, 2018)
Short Stories
* "The New
(''The Normal School'', March 31, 2016)
* "Inside the Great Hous
(''The Hopkins Review'', Fall 2014)
* "Jewel
(''Waxwing'', Summer 2014)
* "The Fortunat
(''Blackbird'', May 5, 2014)
* "Desaparecid
(''Waxwing'', Spring 2014)
* "Between Me
(''Four Way Review'', Sep 30, 2012)
* "The Afflictio
(''Guernica'', Feb 15, 2010)
Essays
* "The Veil of Accessibility: Examining Poems by Frank O’Hara and Kenneth Koch in Light of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
(''American Poetry Review'', March/April, 2013)
Awards
*2022: UNT Rilke Prize, Finalist
*2019: John Gardner Fiction Book Award, Finalist
*2019: Boston College Arts Council Alumni Award for Distinguished Achievement
*2017: The 2016
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted i ...
in Poetry, Finalist
*2017: Hanes Award in Poetry, given by the
Fellowship of Southern Writers
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*2015: UCSF 150th Anniversary Alumni Excellence Award
*2014: Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Literary Editing
*2012: Fellowship from the
Rockefeller Foundation
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for residency at the Bellagio Study Center in 2013
*2012: The
MacDowell Colony
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, Residency Fellowship
*2012:
2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
*2009: Amanda Davis Returning Fellowship,
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''The New Yorker'' "the oldest and most p ...
*2008: 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the
National Endowment for the Arts
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NEA: 2009 GRANT AWARDS: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)
*2008: 2007 ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year Award, Finalist
*2008: The 2007 Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted i ...
in Poetry, Finalist
*2008: Northern California Book Award in Poetry, Finalist
*2007: The Corporation of Yaddo
Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.". On March  ...
, Residency Fellowship
*2004: Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreac ...
' James Laughlin Award
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, Finalist
*2003: Stanley P. Young Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''The New Yorker'' "the oldest and most p ...
*2002: Norma Farber Poetry Award, Finalist
*1992: Tennessee Williams
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Scholarship in Poetry, Sewanee Writers' Conference
*1992: Grolier Poetry Prize
See also
*Physician writer
Physician writers are physicians who write creatively in fields outside their practice of medicine.
The following is a partial list of physician-writers by historic epoch or century in which the author was born, arranged in alphabetical order.
An ...
*New England Review
The ''New England Review'' is an American quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. It was established in 1978 by Sydney Lea and Jay Parini. From 1982 till 1990, the magazine was named ''New England Review & Bread Loaf Quart ...
Notes
External links
Author's website
C. Dale Young's weblog
C. Dale Young's first published short story in Guernica
R.J. Gibson interviews the author for Lambda Literary
* ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081602693.html Night Airin this piece from ''The Washington Post
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'' (August 19, 2007), Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of ...
discusses C. Dale Young's poem "Night Air", found in his book, ''The Second Person.''
Peter Campion reviews ''Torn'' in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books''
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1969 births
Living people
Young, C. Dale
Boston College alumni
University of Florida alumni
Poets from California
American gay writers
American oncologists
University of California, San Francisco alumni
National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
MacDowell Colony fellows
Warren Wilson College faculty
American male poets
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers
21st-century LGBT people