Kristen Millares Young is a Cuban-American investigative journalist, essayist, and novelist. Subduction, her first novel, was released in 2020.
Biography
Young graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in History and Literature of Latin America, citations in Latin American Studies and Spanish in 2003.[1] In 2010, Young served as a multimedia reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She went on to earn her master of fine arts in creative writing and was a GO-MAP Fellow at the University of Washington from 2010–2012.[1] She was the Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington from 2018-19.[2][3]
Career
Young started as a general assignment reporter intern for Time magazine, the Buenos Aires Herald, and the Miami Herald.[1] For four years, she served as a business reporter and later political beat reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.[1] She is the co-founder and board chair of InvestigateWest,[4] a nonprofit newsroom.[5]
As an investigative journalist, Young specializes in reporting on topics such as the environment, missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW),[10] automation, education and social justice, gay rights, government malfeasance and corruption, climate change, worker's rights, and more.[8]
Essays
"Every woman keeps a flame against the wind." (Proximity, November 2018),[11] anthologized in Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, June 2019)[12]
"Straight, No Chaser" anthologized in Pie & Whiskey (Sasquatch, October 2017)
"A few thoughts while shaving" (Hobart, July 2017)[16]
Subduction
Her debut novel, Subduction, was published by Red Hen Press in April 2020. It was reviewed in The Washington Post and selected as a staff pick by The Paris Review.[17][18][19]
Society of Professional Journalists' Pacific Northwest Chapter (Second Place for Comprehensive Coverage, 2007) and (First Place for Best Government Reporting, 2006, with Ruth Teichroeb; Best Online Business Adaption, 2006)
