His numerous honors include the Quill Poetry Award, the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Excellence, the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Non-Fiction, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He was Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing and later Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English at Emory University, where he taught for twelve years and served as curator of Literary Collections at the university’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Young has taught at the University of Georgia and Indiana University. Additionally, he has published two works of prose- The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (2012), a collection of essays and criticism, and Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (2017). Additionally, he has edited several anthologies, including Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (2000), Jazz Poems (2006), and co-edited The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010 (2012). Young has written ten books of poetry, including Most Way Home (1995), selected by Lucille Clifton for the National Poetry Series To Repel Ghosts (2001), a study of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings Blue Laws: Selected and Unselected Poems, 1995-2015, and Brown (2018).
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