Updates from MFA Alum Katherine E. Young

MFA alum Katherine E. Young is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Woman Drinking Absinthe, Day of the Border Guards (2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist), and two chapbooks. Young was named a 2020 Arlington County (Virginia) Individual Artist Grant recipient, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow, and a 2015 Hawthornden Fellow (Scotland). From 2016-2018, she served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia.

 

 

Woman Drinking Absinthe. Poems by Katherine E. Young

Alan Squire Publishing, 2021

 

Written in Arlington: Poems of Arlington, Virginia. Edited by Katherine E. Young

Paycock Press, 2020

This work was supported by a 2020 Arlington County Individual Artist Grant to Katherine E. Young. The project includes not just the written anthology (150 poems, 87 poets, 4 languages) but a living digital archive of the poems and poets of Arlington, VA, Spoken in Arlington, on YouTube.

 

Look at Him. A memoir by Anna Starobinets (Russia), translated from the Russian by Katherine E. Young.

Three String Books, 2020

 

Farewell, Aylis: A Non-Traditional Novel in Three Works. Written by Akram Aylisli (Azerbaijan), translated from the Russian by Katherine E. Young.

Academic Studies Press, 2018

 

Blue Birds and Red Horses. Poems by Inna Kabysh, translated from the Russian by Katherine E. Young

Toad Press, 2018

 

Two Poems. Poems by Inna Kabysh, translated from the Russian by Katherine E. Young

Artist's Proof Editions, 2016