Andy Young, New Orleans poet, essayist, and author of the new book, All Night It Is Morning, grew up in southern West Virginia and has spent most of her adult life in New Orleans working at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. With her partner, Khaled Hegazzi, she translates poetry from the Arabic and founded Meena, a bilingual literary journal, in 2005. For the last two years she has lived in Egypt, where she worked at the American University in Cairo and documented the revolution in essays, poems, and photographs. A graduate of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, her writing has been published in three chapbooks, publications in Lebanon, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, and throughout the United States in places such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Callaloo, Guernica, and the Norton anthology Language for a New Century.
Her work also been featured in Pasion Flamenca’s play Flamenclorico: Lore of the Miners, performed at the Joyce Theater, Public Radio International’s The World, the jewelry designs of Jeanine Payer, in Santa Fe’s public buses, and in SUNY’s Drawn from Disaster exhibit and Paul Chan’s Tree of Life project for the New Museum. Andy was an early winner of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s gold medal for best poem in the William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and has appeared at the Society’s annual Words & Music: a Literary Feast in New Orleans on multiple occasions. One of her chapbooks, All Fires the Fire, was underwritten by the Faulkner Society and its patron Faulkner House Books.