C. Dale Young

C. Dale Young
Born	April 18, 1969 (1969-04-18) (age 42)
Occupation	Poet Physician Editor Educator
Nationality	American
Genres	Poetry Short Stories
Spouse(s)	Jacob Bertrand
www.cdaleyoung.com

C. Dale Young (born April 18, 1969) is an American poet and writer, physician, editor and educator.

Life

Young writes and publishes poetry and short stories, 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 (BS 1991) 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 spouse, biologist and composer Jacob Bertrand.^[2]

Works

Poetry Collections

• Torn, poems (Four Way Books, 2011)
• The Second Person, poems (Four Way Books, 2007)
• The Day Underneath the Day, poems (Northwestern University Press, 2001)

Limited Edition

• Torn, letter-press broadside (Mad River Press, 2004)

Short Fiction

• "The Affliction"[1] (Guernica, Feb 15, 2010)

Awards

• 2009: Amanda Davis Returning Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
• 2008: 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts^[3]
• 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

See also

Poetry portal

• Physician writer
• New England Review

Notes

1. ^ Acknowledgments pages from the author's books
2. ^ Author's website
3. ^ http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/09grants/litFellows.html

External links

• Author's website
• C. Dale Young's weblog
• C. Dale Young's first published short story in Guernica
• R.J. Gibson interviews the author for Lambda Literary
• Sasha West interviews the author for Gulf Coast Magazine
• 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.

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