Young, Dean
William Livingston Chair of Poetry

Education: M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Indiana University, 1984
Office Location: Calhoun 312
Office Hours: W 2:00-4:00p & by appointment
deanyoung@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests
Dean Young has published ten books of poetry, recently Elegy on Toy Piano, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Primitive Mentor. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, two from the National endowment for the Arts as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and was on the permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop until becoming the William Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin in 2008. A book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness will be published in 2009.

Recent Publications
Primitive Mentor, University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2008
embryoyo, Believer Books, 2007
Elegy on Toy Piano, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006
Ready-Made Bouquet, Stride Books (UK), 2005
Original Monkey, Center for the Book, Iowa City (limited edition), 2004
Skid, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999
True False, Inflorescence Press (limited edition), 2002

Awards and Honors
Literature Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2007
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, 2006 (for Elegy of Toy Pianos)
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002-2003
Finalist, Lenore Marshall Prize, American Academy of poets, 2004 (for Skid)
Virginia Butts Sturm Writer in Residence, University of West Virginia, 2002
Poems selected for Best American Poetry, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2006
Pushcart Prize, 1997
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, 1988 and 1996

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