Young grew up in Florida, attended high school in California, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in History and Literature of Latin America, with a focus on Latin American Studies and Spanish, in 2003.[1][2] In 2010, Young served as a multimedia reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She earned her master of fine arts in creative writing and was a GO-MAP Fellow at the University of Washington from 2010-2012.[1]
Career
Young started as a general assignment reporter intern for Time magazine, the Buenos Aires Herald, and the Miami Herald.[1] For four years, she served as a business reporter and later political beat reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.[1] She was the 2016-2019 board chair of InvestigateWest,[3] a nonprofit newsroom which she co-founded.[4]
Her debut novel, Subduction, was published by Red Hen Press in April 2020. It was reviewed in The Washington Post and selected as a staff pick by The Paris Review.[12][13][14] Subduction won Nautilusand IPPY[15] awards and was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year.[16]
Young's debut memoir, Desire Lines, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in October 2026.[17][18]
Essays
“What are the chances?” anthologized in No Contact: Writers on Family Estrangement (Catapult, April 2026)
“New Faith, Forgotten Soil” (wildness, December 2025)
“On Hold” (Spark Magazine, November 2024)
“Brainstorm” (Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana, 2022; Young’s reading of “Brainstorm” is archived by the Library of Congress PALABRA[19][20]
“How to Break Even” (Vol. I Brooklyn, September 2021)
“The Inescapable Joys of Motherhood” anthologized in Alone Together: Love, Grief and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19[KMY8] , winner of a 2021 Washington State Book Award
“Our Lady of Perpetual Self-Loathing” (Fiction International, fall 2021)
“This is not a metaphor” (The Rumpus, July 2021)
"Every woman keeps a flame against the wind." (Proximity, November 2018),[21] anthologized in Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, June 2019)[22]
"Straight, No Chaser" anthologized in Pie & Whiskey (Sasquatch, October 2017)
"A few thoughts while shaving" (Hobart, July 2017)[26]
Journalism
As an investigative journalist, Young has specialized in reporting on topics such as the environment, missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW),[27] automation, education and social justice, gay rights, government malfeasance and corruption, climate change, worker's rights, and more.[9] Since 2018, Young has contributed book reviews to The Washington Post Book World.[28]
Society of Professional Journalists' Pacific Northwest Chapter (Second Place for Comprehensive Coverage, 2007) and (First Place for Best Government Reporting, 2007, with Ruth Teichroeb; Best Online Business Adaption, 2006)
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