Kim Young is an award-winning author of two books of poetry: Night Radio, winner of the Agha Ali Shahid Poetry Prize and finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Tigers celebrated in reviews and described by LA Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson as “mesmerizing.”  Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Alta, The Cincinnati Review, TriQuarterly, Western Humanities Review, Barrelhouse, LA Review of Books, Los Angeles Review, and other magazines and anthologies. She edited for many years the literary journal Chaparral, which featured interviews and new writing from Maggie Nelson, Jericho Brown, Victoria Chang and many others. She is currently at work on a hybrid book of memoir and biography on the late poet Lee McCarthy, and is represented by Bonnie Nadell at the Hill Nadell Literary Agency.