Jake Young

Jake Young earned his MPH from the University of Chicago, his MFA from North Carolina State University, and his PhD from the University of Missouri.

He is the author of the poetry collections All I Wanted (Redhawk Publications, 2021); What They Will Say (Finishing Line Press, 2021); and American Oak (Main Street Rag, 2018). He is also the translator of several works, including Matilde Ladrón de Guevara’s poetry collection Desnuda/Naked (Redhawk Publications, 2022), co-translated with Rebecca Pelky.

The poetry editor of Chicago Quarterly Review, Young is from Bonny Doon, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains.