C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of The Affliction (Four Way Books, 2018), a novel in stories, and the poetry collections The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern, 2001); The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry; Torn (Four Way Books, 2011), named one of the best poetry collections of 2011 by National Public Radio; The Halo (Four Way Books, 2016), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry; and Prometeo (Four Way Books, 2021). He is a previous recipient of the Grolier Prize, the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for Literary Editing, and the 2017/2018 Hanes Award in Poetry given by the Fellowship of Southern Writers to honor a poet at mid-career. A fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, his poems and short fiction have appeared widely. He lives in San Francisco.