Kristen Millares Young
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Kristen Millares Young is a Cuban-American investigative journalist, essayist, and novelist. Subduction, her first novel, was released in 2020.
Biography[edit]
Young graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in History and Literature of Latin America, citations in Latin American Studies and Spanish in 2003.[1] In 2010, Young served as a multimedia reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She went on to earn her master of fine arts in creative writing and was a GO-MAP Fellow at the University of Washington from 2010–2012.[1] She was the Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington from 2018-19.[2][3]
Career[edit]
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 is the co-founder and board chair of InvestigateWest,[4] a nonprofit newsroom.[5]
While at The New York Times, Young contributed to "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek", which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and a Peabody Award.[6]
Young has also written freelance articles for publications including The Washington Post and the Guardian.[7][8][9] She also teaches creative writing in English and Spanish at Hugo House, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference , and the Seattle Public Library.
Writings[edit]
Journalism[edit]
As an investigative journalist, Young specializes in reporting on topics such as the environment, missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW),[10] automation, education and social justice, gay rights, government malfeasance and corruption, climate change, worker's rights, and more.[8]
Essays[edit]
- "Every woman keeps a flame against the wind." (Proximity, November 2018),[11] anthologized in Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, June 2019)[12]
- "Follow Me" (City Arts Magazine, September 2018)[13]
- "When a rideshare trip leads to fear and disgust" (Crosscut, January 2018)[14]
- "On Being Driven" (Moss, October 2017)[15]
- "Straight, No Chaser" anthologized in Pie & Whiskey (Sasquatch, October 2017)
- "A few thoughts while shaving" (Hobart, July 2017)[16]
Subduction[edit]
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.[17][18][19]
Awards[edit]
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Young earned the following awards as a contributing researcher for the New York Times team that produced Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
- American Society of Newspaper Editors (Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling, 2013)
- Pictures of the Year International (Best E-Project), 2013[20]
Other awards
- Society of American Business Editors and Writers (Best in Business, General Excellence, 2007)
- Society of Professional Journalists' Pacific Northwest Chapter (Second Place for Comprehensive Coverage, 2007) and (First Place for Best Government Reporting, 2006, with Ruth Teichroeb; Best Online Business Adaption, 2006)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Young, Kristen. "Kristen Millares Young". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Kristen Millares Young Named 2018-19 Prose Writer-in-Residence". Hugo House. 2018-07-16. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ Elliot, Gwendolyn (21 August 2018). "The New Hugo House Opens in September". Seattle Magazine. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ^ "InvestigateWest » Staff". InvestigateWest. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Biography". Kristen Millares Young. 2013-08-02. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek". www.peabodyawards.com. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Kristen Millares Young". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b "Essays & Journalism". Kristen Millares Young. 2013-08-15. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Kristen Millares Young". The Guardian.
- ^ Yandel, Jeannie (24 August 2015). "Native American Actress Misty Upham: 'She Deserved Better' From Auburn Police". KUOW.
- ^ "Every Woman Keeps a Flame Against the Wind". True. 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ "Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity: 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ Young, Kristen Millares (2018-08-29). "Follow Me". City Arts Magazine. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ Young, Kristen Millares. "When a rideshare trip leads to fear and disgust". crosscut.com. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ Young, Kristen Millares. "Moss. Issue 08". www.mosslit.com. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ Young, Kristen Millares. "Hobart :: A Few Thoughts While Shaving". www.hobartpulp.com. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
- ^ "Subduction: My Debut Novel". Kristen Millares Young. 2013-08-15. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
- ^ "Staff Picks: Cositas, Cosmos, and Concerts". The Paris Review. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ^ Akins, Ellen (15 April 2020). "In 'Subduction,' an anthropologist observing a remote fishing village becomes part of the story". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
- ^ "Winner | Best eProject". poy.org. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
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- University of Washington alumni
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- Living people
- Writers from Washington (state)
- American fiction writers
- Hispanic and Latino American novelists
- American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American journalists
- Novelists from Washington (state)
- American women essayists
- American newspaper writers
- American people of Cuban descent
- 21st-century American women writers