C. Dale Young is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Torn (Four Way Books, 2011). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Young works full-time as a physician, edits poetry for New England Review, and teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.  

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