About Patricia Young

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Patricia Young is a writer living in Victoria BC. Twice short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, she has won numerous awards for her fiction and poetry.

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Biography

Patricia Young, born in Victoria, BC where she still lives, is the author of nine collections of poetry and one of short fiction. She has two grown children and is married to the writer, Terence Young.

She has taught at the University of Victoria, served as Editorial Assistant of the Malahat Review, on the board of the Victoria School of Writing, and also as writer in residence at various universities, most recently in 2008 where she was the WIR at the University of New Brunswick. She received the Arc Poem of the Year Award in 2009 and 2010. Selections of her poetry were also short-listed for the CBC Literary Competition in 2009 and 2010.

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About Patricia Young

Patricia Young is an award-winning poet and writer living in Victoria, BC, Canada. More…

Launched on September 25th at the Victoria Art Gallery

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