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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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