Joyce YOUNG

Joyce Young is a poet and writer based in Berkeley, California, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry chapbook *How it Happens* (Nomadic Press/Black Lawrence Press, 2018), nominated for a California Book Award, with poems nominated for a Pushcart Prize, published in outlets like West Trestle Review and The Bloom. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Smith College (class of 1975) and a master's in interdisciplinary consciousness studies from JFK University, and has received fellowships at Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.