Dean Young received his MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University. Young has taught in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College and Loyola University, as well as at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He currently works as the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas, in Austin.
His published works include: Primitive Mentor (2008); Embryoyo (2007); Elegy on Toy Piano (2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Skid (2002), a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Prize; First Course in Turbulence (1999); Strike Anywhere (1995), which won the Colorado Poetry Prize; Beloved Infidel (1992); and Design with X (1988).
Dean Young received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, a Stegner fellowship from Standford University, and from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His achievements include various publications in The Best American Poetry series in addition to an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His poem “Whale Watch” was featured in Issue 12.1 Winter/Spring 2000 and his poem “First Course in Turbulence” was featured in Issue 8.1 Winter/Spring 1996.
