Product Description
by Judy Young (Author), John K. Young (Editor), Mary Ann Taylor-Hall (Foreword by)
Judy Young (1940--2015) was a gifted but private poet. Over the years, she established provisional collections of her best work but refrained from seeking publication due to her trepidation with sharing her deeply personal poems with an audience. She found her voice in a collective group of creatives that included Susan Starr Richards, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, and the late Donna Boyd, Jane Gentry, Audrey Robinson, and Carolyn Hisel. This illustrious circle of friends met monthly for almost thirt
Author Biography
Judy Young (1940--2015) was a graduate of Transylvania University and later earned an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. John K. Young is a professor in the English department at Marshall University, specializing in histories of textual production in the American and British literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature, How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O'Brien's Process of Textual Production, and the coeditor, with George Hutchinson, of Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850.