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Andy Young

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Andy Young is a poet whose second full-length collection, Museum of the Soon to Depart, was published in October 2024 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She is also the author of All Night It Is Morning (Diálogos Press, 2014) and four chapbooks. She grew up in southern West Virginia and has lived most of her adult life in New Orleans, where she teaches at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work has recently appeared in Greensboro Review and Michigan Quarterly Review, and her poetry film "Pharmacy Museum Tour Guide, New Orleans" has been selected for more than two dozen festivals and won awards from the Berlin Indie Film Festival, the London Women's Film Festival, and many others. A graduate of Warren Wilson's Program for Writers, her essays have been featured in Zocalo Public Square and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

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