Gary Young (poet)

He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A. His work has appeared in Poetry, Antaeus, The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Montserrat Review, ZYZZYVA. In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts. His archive is held at Brown University. He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, with his wife and two sons. In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology through Lynx House Press. ==Awards==

• 2009 Shelley Memorial Award • National Endowment for the Humanities • the Vogelstein Foundation • George Bogin Memorial Award • the California Arts Council • two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts • Pushcart Prize • James D. Phelan Award for The Dream of a Moral Life • William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, No Other Life • Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize, Braver Deeds • first poet laureate, City of [Santa Cruz], CA • 2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America • 2017 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award for ''That's What I Thought'' ==Works==

Poetry • • • • • • • • New and Selected Poems, White Pine Press. • • Editor • • ==References==