C. Dale Young
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| Born | April 18, 1969 |
| Occupation | Poet Physician Editor Educator |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | Poetry |
| Spouse(s) | Jacob Bertrand |
C. Dale Young (born April 18, 1969) is an American poet, physician, editor, and educator.
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[edit] Biography
Young writes and publishes poetry, practices medicine full-time, edits poetry for New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Paris Review, POETRY, Yale Review, and elsewhere. His work has also been included in anthologies, including The Best American Poetry.[1]
Young grew up in south Florida. He holds degrees from Boston College and the University of Florida (MFA 1993 and MD 1997). He completed his medical internship at the Riverside Regional Medical Center and his residency in Radiation Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco.
He lives in San Francisco, California with his life-partner, biologist and composer Jacob Bertrand.[2]
[edit] Awards
- 2008: 2007 ForeWord Magazine Poetry Book of the Year Award, Finalist
- 2008: The 2007 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry, Finalist
- 2008: Northern California Book Award in Poetry, Finalist
- 2007: The Corporation of Yaddo, Residency Fellowship
- 2004: Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award, Finalist
- 2003: Stanley P. Young Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
- 2002: Norma Farber Poetry Award, Finalist
- 1992: Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry, Sewanee Writers' Conference
- 1992: Grolier Poetry Prize
[edit] Works
- The Second Person, poems (Four Way Books, 2007)
- Torn, broadside (Mad River Press, 2004)
- The Day Underneath the Day, poems (Northwestern University Press, 2001)
[edit] External links
- Author's website
- C. Dale Young's weblog
- Sasha West interviews the author for Gulf Coast Magazine
- Emerging Writers Forum interview
- Author Journal from the Poetry Foundation
- Jacket Magazine's Review of The Day Underneath the Day
- Night Air in this piece from the Washington Post (August 19, 2007), Robert Pinsky discusses C. Dale Young's poem "Night Air", found in his book, The Second Person.
[edit] References
- ^ Acknowledgments pages from the author's books
- ^ Author's website
