C. Dale Young is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being The Halo (Four Way Books, 2016). His collection of short stories, The Affliction, will be published by Four Way Books in early 2018. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, he practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.  

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