Darlene Young

Referring to the Residency: “I’m seeking a new friction in my work…I look forward to some jangle and clash, some kind of sparky and sparkling disruption.”

Darlene Young’s poetry collection, Homespun and Angel Feathers (BCC Press, 2019) won the Association for Mormon Letters 2019 prize for poetry.  She teaches Creative Writing at Brigham Young University and has served as poetry editor of Dialogue journal and Segullah. Her work has been noted in Best American Essays and nominated for Pushcart prizes. She and her husband have four sons and live in South Jordan, Utah.

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