Young attended Harvard College, where he studied with Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido and became friends with writer Colson Whitehead. He first began to pursue writing when he was thirteen years old, after he attended a summer writing class at Washburn University.
Young lived in six different places before he reached the age of ten, but his family ultimately settled in Topeka, Kansas. Due to the careers of both of his parents, his family moved frequently throughout his youth.
Young, was an ophthalmologist and his mother, Dr. In March 2017, Young was named poetry editor of The New Yorker.īorn in Lincoln, Nebraska, Young was the only child of two working parents, his father, Dr. A winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his 2003 collection Jelly Roll: A Blues, Young was Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young previously served as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Kevin Young (born November 8, 1970) is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021. Guggenheim Fellowship finalist, National Book Award
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