About Andy Young

Ms. Young is the co-editor of Meena, a bilingual Arabic-English literary journal. She teaches Creative Writing at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. Her work was recently featured on National Public Radio’s “The World” and published in Best New Poets 2009 (University of Virginia Press), Callaloo, Guernica, and Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co). Her work has also appeared in electronic music, buses in Santa Fe, flamenco productions, jewelry designs by Jeanine Payer, and a tattoo parlor in Berlin.

ANTHOLOGIES

Best New Poets 2009: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers (University of Virginia Press, 2009)

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co, 2008)

POEMS