Dean Young

Dean Young (1955–2022) was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and received his MFA from Indiana University. His numerous collections of poetry include Strike Anywhere (1995), winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry; Skid (2002), finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; elegy on toy piano (2005), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Primitive Mentor (2008), shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize; Bender: New & Selected Poems (2012); Shock by Shock (2015); and Solar Perplexus (2019). He also wrote a book on poetics, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (2010).