Brandon Young’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Foglifter, Gulf Coast, The Journal, RHINO, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He attended the 2021 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and was a 2022 Tennessee Williams Scholar in poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He is a PhD student in creative writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he serves as poetry editor of Quarterly West. He holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he served as the 2021–2022 Levis Reading Prize Fellow.  

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