Stephanie Young (poet)

Stephanie Young is an American poet, activist, and scholar who lives in Oakland, California.[1] Young teaches at Mills College, where she is also the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Programs.[2] At Mills College, Young participated as labor organizer in a successful adjunct unionization campaign.[3] Institutional politics in the university have been a theme in her work.

Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005),[4] Picture Palace (2008),[5] and Ursula or University (2013).[6] She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006)[7] and co-edited, along with poet Juliana Spahr, the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012),[8] a collection of “enactments” investigating politics, feminism, and collaborative poetry practice that the pair performed between 2005 and 2007. Young's poetry and prose have been published in a variety of sites, including: The Poetry Foundation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Young was a founding editor of the online anthology/“museum” of Oakland, Deep Oakland . She was a board member at Small Press Traffic, where she curated the Poets Theater festival from 2005-08.

Young's work is noted for being cross-genre and hybrid, integrating text, performance, new media, archival research, and activism. According to T.C. Marshall, Young's poetry “works with feeling, fact, and militant action and reflection.”