brandon young

is a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he was Senior Poetry Editor of Quarterly West. He holds a BA from Indiana University and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he was the Larry Levis Poetry Fellow. He has received support from Tin House Writers Workshop and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar in poetry at Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His work has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Journal, The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, and elsewhere.