Draft:Katie Bowler Young

Kathleen Bowler Young (born October 2, 1974) is an American author, poet, and community arts organizer. Young has published a number of chapbooks, as well as the first extensive biography on sculptor Enrique Alférez.

Early life and education
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Young touches on subjects such as Hurricane Katrina, Southern living, as well as other topics surrounding art and place.

Young graduated from St. Mary's Dominican High School, her mother's Alma Mater, and went on to attend University of New Orleans for an undergraduate degree in Drama and Communications. Many years later, she attended Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers and holds her Masters' in Creative Writing. In her time at Warren Wilson, she was awarded the Lisel Meuller Scholarship and a Friends of Writers Scholarship.

Career
Young relocated to North Carolina in 2008 alongside her immediate family to work at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. During her 13 years there, she received the North Carolina Governor's Award for Outstanding Government Service and a Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award. She is now employed at RTI International as the Senior Director of University Collaborations.

= Publications =

Individual poems and fiction pieces

 * "Broken", Louisiana Literature (Fall 2022)
 * "Land Flip" and "Seven Arrows", Midwest Quarterly (Summer 2022)
 * "Landscape" and "Twilight Love", Louisiana Literature (2021)
 * "Twilight Walks", LEON Literary Review (Issue 16, Fall 2021)
 * "Bypass, and a Missed Song", Meridian (Issue 45, Spring 2021)
 * "Understory" and "Exchange of Letters", Midwest Quarterly (Summer 2020)
 * "Antipode" and "Departures", Louisiana Literature (Fall/Winter 2019)
 * "The Well" and "Vacation", Louisiana Literature (Fall/Winter 2018)
 * "Taproot", Soundings East (Spring 2018)
 * "Recovery", the Southern Review (Autumn 2015)
 * "Trigger" and "Sticks and Leaves", Louisiana Literature (Spring/Summer 2011)
 * "Path", The South Dakota Review (Fall/Winter 2010)
 * "Homesick", Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature (Fall/Winter 2010)
 * "Farrowing Down", Plainsongs (Vol. 31, Number 1, October 2010)
 * "On the Ground", Folio: A Literary Journal at American University (Spring 2010)
 * "Origin", Eastown (June 2010)
 * "Cornflower" and "The End", Louisiana Review (Spring 2008)
 * "Taking It Like It Is", "Field of Ice", and "Roots", Constance (2008, Anthology)
 * "State Street", Louisiana Literature (Fall/Winter 2007)
 * "The Light in a Field of Late-Night Shadows", Louisiana Literature (2005)
 * "A Handful of Leaves", Louisiana Literature (Winter 2003)
 * "Picture Writing", For Immediate Release (February 2002)

= Awards =


 * Louisiana Scholar, Words & Music Festival (2005)
 * North Carolina Governor's Award for Outstanding Government Service (2021)
 * Finalist, Housatonic Book Award (2021)
 * Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrator Award (2023)
 * Finalist, Marble Faun Poetry Prize (2003)

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