C. Dale Young, Poet
Nov. 6, 2008
C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New
England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for
Writers. He is the author of The Day Underneath the Day (TriQuarterlyBooks,
2001), The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007), and he is currently
completing a third book manuscript of poems titled TORN. He is a previous
winner of the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry from
the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry
from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Young has taught at several writers'
conferences, including the Catskill Poetry Workshops and the Napa Valley Writers'
Conference. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The
Best American Poetry, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Legitimate
Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The New Republic, The
Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He lives in
San Francisco with the biologist and composer, Jacob Bertrand. (Photo credit:
Marion Ettlinger).
