Andy Young

Andy Young's second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in October 2024. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Identity Theory, Drunken Boat, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She and her partner, Khaled Hegazzi, translate poems from Arabic that have been published in Southern Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Norton Anthology Language for a New Century. A graduate of Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers, her work has been translated into several languages, featured in classical and electronic music, in flamenco and modern dance performances, and in jewelry, tattoos, and public buses. https://bit.ly/andyyoung