Katherine E. Young: My Very Own Golden Horde: Moscow
Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards, 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist, and two chapbooks. She is the translator of Farewell, Aylis by Azerbaijani political prisoner Akram Aylisli and Blue Birds and Red Horses and Two Poems, both by Inna Kabysh. Young’s translations have appeared in Asymptote, LA Review of Books, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and 100 Poems about Moscow, winner of the 2017 Books of Russia award (Poetry). Young was a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow and served as the inaugural poet laureate for Arlington, Virginia, from 2016 to 2018.
