Joyce Young’s chapbook, How it Happens, Nomadic Press (2018), was nominated for a California Book Award. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recently appeared in West Trestle Review, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color, Poem of the Day at The San Francisco Public Library, and The Bloom. Her prose has been published in Smith Alumnae Quarterly. She is currently writing a memoir. She has received fellowships at Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Smith College and a master’s degree in interdisciplinary consciousness studies from JFK University.