Kristen Millares Young
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Kristen Millares Young

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Kristen Millares Young is the author of the award-winning novel Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. On October 6, 2026, Red Hen Press will release her memoir-in-essays Desire Lines, called “searching, generous, and unrelenting” by Melissa Febos, “alive with style and poetic lyricism” by Weike Wang, and “explosive and daring” by Luis Alberto Urrea. Her essays, reviews, and investigations appear most recently in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, as well as the anthologies Alone Together, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, and No Contact (Catapult). She is the editor of Seismic, a 2021 Washington State Book Award finalist. Kristen was the researcher for The New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. Kristen graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in History and Literature, later earning her Master of Fine Arts from UW. From 2016 to 2019, Kristen served as board chair of InvestigateWest, a nonprofit news studio she co-founded. In 2025, Kristen joined the creative writing faculty of the low residency Oregon State University-Cascades MFA program, and she was in residence for the Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, Alaska and for a UNESCO Cities of Literature fellowship in Reykjavík, Iceland. @kristenmillares
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