Margaret Young grew up in Oberlin, Ohio.
She earned a B.A. from Yale and worked in a traveling theater company before earning an M.A. in creative writing at the University of California, Davis. She has taught writing and theater to all ages and been an artist-in residence in schools, and received an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council in 2005. Her poetry collections include Willow from the Willow,
Almond Town, Blight Summer, and How Else Can We Know What's Beautiful? Her translations of Sergio Inestrosa's In el espacio improbable de un haiku and Luna que no cesa appeared in 2017 and 2018, respectively. She is one the faculty of the Global Center for Advanced Studies, and lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.
photo credit: Jenne Young
