Career
Scholes Young edited two volumes of new work by women writers, Grace in Darkness (2018) [4] and Furious Gravity (2020), [5] which was featured on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, [6] Washington Independent Review of Books, [7] [8] Medium, [9] and at Politics & Prose Bookstore. [10]
She is a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review [11] and Editor of the Grace & Gravity anthology. [12] Her writing has appeared in American Fiction , [13] The Atlantic , [14] Literary Hub , [15] Ms. Magazine , [16] Narrative , Origins Literary Magazine , [17] Ploughshares , Poet Lore , Poets & Writers , [18] The Washington Independent Review of Books, [19] and The Washington Post . [20]
Scholes Young attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2014 and was awarded the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Fellowship in 2015. [21]
She also published her debut novel, Flood, in 2017. [22] The novel received reviews from residents and press [23] [24] [25] in Hannibal, Missouri: Scholes Young's hometown, Mark Twain's hometown, and the setting and inspiration of the novel. [26] The novel also received attention from the literary community in Washington, D.C. [27] [28] and brought rise to Scholes Young's creative writing career as an emerging author in the nation's capital. [29]
Scholes Young, sharing a hometown with Mark Twain, has written fiction [30] [31] [32] that reimagines Tom and Huck's famous friendship as female and scholarship [33] concerned with the character portrayal of Becky Thatcher. [34] [35]
Scholes Young's second novel, The Hive, [36] is forthcoming in 2021 from Turner Publishing. [37] The novel has been optioned by Sony Entertainment. [38]
She teaches in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C. where she champions first-generation student issues. [39] [40]
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