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Thanks to Newspaperalum.com for this Profile
Kristen Millares Young in Columbia City Library. Photo by Elizabeth Lowry I am grateful that veteran reporter Bill Lucey looks me up every once in a while to see how I’m doing since the Seattle P-I...
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Reading with Anca Szilagyi for The Furnace at Hollow Earth Radio
Anca Szilagyi is one of my favorite writers. We met at the MFA program at the University of Washington, where she counseled me on the vagaries of workshopping a novel. On August 1st, I was honored to...
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LitCrawl 2012: A Seattle Debut
Thank you to Dark Coast Press for inviting me to read at the 2012 Seattle debut of LitCrawl, a series of readings in bookstores and bars. DCP Editor-in-Chief Jarret Middleton, Gabe Blackwell, John...
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NYT’s Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
Beginning in April 2012, I conducted research for The New York Times’ multimedia narrative feature entitled Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek. I am proud to be a small part of the team that...
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Benefit for Prison Writing Programs
I was so honored to benefit and highlight prison creative writing programs across the United States by joining in an evening of poems and stories with the theme WILDERNESS on Thursday, March 7th,...
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The Stranger Suggests Hugo House Reading…
Kristen Millares Young reads at Cheap Beer & Prose, Richard Hugo House, March 21 2013. Photo credit to Sarah Samudre. I’ve turned to The Stranger for arts and culture events in Seattle since I...
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EDGE Reading at The Elliott Bay Book Co
For the past six weeks, I have spent my Saturdays learning the business of writing as part of the EDGE Professional Development Program for Literary Artists. I am grateful to Artist Trust for...
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NYT’s “Snow Fall” Awarded 2013 Pulitzer
I am so grateful that NYT Sports Editor Jason Stallman honored my research during his Pulitzer speech to the New York Times newsroom.It was a privilege to help create the NYT article and e-book, “Snow...
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2014: The Year of Jack Straw
Before I told the world that I wanted to be an author, I didn’t know there were people who would put together a podcast of my thoughts and work, who would write a song based on my book and invite me to...
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A few thoughts on what I do
Some people have asked me for the full text of my AWP panel presentation, Digging for Story: Research, Fieldwork and Creative Writing. Here goes: I am an investigative journalist by trade, a novelist...
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On the True Pleasure of Finding An Advocate
It is difficult for me to share my current happiness, which compels an earnest tone that I fear is at odds with the anonymous intimacy of the internet. In the years spent making my first novel...
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Investigative Journalism: Back to the Basics
InvestigateWest has made a real difference in the eight years since Executive Director Robert McClure and I first gathered with a group of journalists to form a nonprofit newsroom for the Pacific...
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Writers Resist: A Celebration of Free Speech
There comes a time when we must stand for our beliefs. On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, I joined thousands of writers around the world to celebrate the ideals of a free, just and compassionate...
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A big year for InvestigateWest
As board chair of InvestigateWest, I am so proud to share this news from Executive Director Robert McClure. “Reporting by InvestigateWest journalists drove positive change in both the Washington and...
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Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House
I’m thrilled to share this news from Hugo House, where I will serve as the newest prose writer-in-residence for one of the longest running programs of Seattle’s hub for writers. Here’s their...
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Seattle Magazine Celebrates the New Hugo House
That’s me on the left, standing next to one of my heroes. Hugo House Executive Director Tree Swenson realized a dream for our community: a permanent place for the literary arts in Seattle. Many thanks...
View ArticleInterview in The Millions
On the long journey toward publication, I’ve been buoyed by authors like Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, who drew me into a conversation about prose, politics, motherhood and the canon, now online on The...
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Ms. Magazine Preview: Feminist Books of 2020
Feminists held space for me to develop my own consciousness. When I was a girl in central Florida, Ms. Magazine reached me, and I knew I wasn’t alone in thinking this way. To be understood was a...
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SUBDUCTION named a staff pick by The Paris Review
SUBDUCTION is a staff pick in The Paris Review. It’s a real joy in a hard time thanks to West Coast editor Christian Kiefer, who read my novel like a writer and valued my book’s explorations. I have...
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My Message to the City for The Stranger
I welcome your thoughts about the ideas I shared in this ten-minute Message to the City, which concludes with a visual poem, and which is transcribed below. Good morning, Seattle. My name is Kristen...
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