Katherine E. YoungKatherine E. Young is the author of the poetry collections “Woman Drinking Absinthe” and “Day of the Border Guards” (2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist) and the editor of “Written in Arlington.” She has translated work by Anna Starobnets (memoir), Akram Aylisli (fiction), and numerous Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Awards include the Granum Foundation Translation Prize, the Pushkin House Translation Residency, an Arlington County (Virginia) Individual Artist Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship, and a Hawthornden fellowship (Scotland). From 2016-2018, she served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for Arlington, Virginia. Read More Read Less