Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American

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and

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. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County.

Life

He graduated from

University of California Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of ...

and

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...

, with an M.F.A. His work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Antaeus'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Montserrat Review'', ''ZYZZYVA''.''. In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the

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, the

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, and The

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for the Arts. His archive is held at

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. He teaches at the

, and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, with his wife and two sons. In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published ''One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology'' through Lynx House Press.

Awards

* 2009

Shelley Memorial Award The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need, and is ...

* National Endowment for the Humanities * the Vogelstein Foundation * the California Arts Council * two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts * Pushcart Prize * James D. Phelan Award for ''The Dream of a Moral Life'' *

William Carlos Williams Award The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press. The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet and ...

of the

Poetry Society of America The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Ro ...

, ''No Other Life'' * Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, ''Braver Deeds'' * first poet laureate, City of anta Cruz CA * 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the

* 2017 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award for ''That's What I Thought''

Works

Poetry

* * * * * * * ''New and Selected Poems'', White Pine Press. * *

Editor

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References

External links

"Author's website"

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Gary 1951 births Living people Poets from California University of California, Santa Cruz faculty University of California, Santa Cruz alumni University of California, Irvine alumni