About Katherine E. Young

Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards, 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist, and two chapbooks. Her poems appear in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and Shenandoah. Young is the translator of Two Poems by Inna Kabysh; her translations of Russian poets Xenia Emelyanova and Inna Kabysh won third prize in the Joseph Brodsky-Stephen Spender competitions in 2014 and 2011, respectively. Individual translations appear in Tupelo Quarterly, Waxwing, The White Review, and Words Without Borders. A full-length collection of Inna Kabysh’s poems was a finalist for the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation. http://katherine-young-poet.com/