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Kristen Millares Young

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Kristen Millares Young is a book critic, essayist, and author of the novel Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards, Subduction was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. Her essays and reviews appear in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Literary Hub, PANK Magazine, and the anthologies Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Latina Outsiders, and Alone Together. A former Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence, she is the editor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. She was the 2023 Distinguished Visiting Writer for Seattle University. @kristenmillares
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Feral Feminisms in Noir: A Conversation with Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum 

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • January 13, 2025
...Intuition and empathy are central methods of communication when we look to understand others and to put ourselves in others’ positions.
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The Persistence of Enchantment: A Conversation with Sofia Samatar

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • September 4, 2024
To me, the difference between invisibility and opacity is the difference between being misread and being granted a quality of privacy that is a fundamental part of being a human among other humans.
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Everyone is a comprehensive mess: The Rumpus Interview with Robert Lopez

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • May 9, 2022
[Your] chosen Bermuda Triangle: the battered psyche of a man, the chosen amnesia of our society, and the resultant nausea of an era.
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This Is Not a Metaphor

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • July 7, 2021
On the far side of silence, I suspect, is joy.
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What to Read When You Don’t Know If You Can Go Home Again

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • December 18, 2020
Kristen Millares Young shares a reading list to celebrate SUBDUCTION.
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What to Read When Your City Hasn’t Held Space for Your Community

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • November 13, 2020
Kristen Millares Young shares a reading list to celebrate SEISMIC: SEATTLE, CITY OF LITERATURE.
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