Dean Young

Dean Young (Poetry) has published ten books of poetry, recently Elegy on Toy Piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Primitive Mentor, a finalist for the 2009 Griffin Prize in Poetry; his 2011 collection of poems, Fall Higher; and a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness.  He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Arts and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop until becoming the William Livingston Chair of Poetry with MCW and the UT Department of English in 2008.