Kathleen Tankersley Young

Kathleen Tankersley Young, American writer. Undated photo portrait from the private collection of Erik La Prade.

Kathleen Tankersley Young (August 15, 1902–April 9, 1933) was an American writer, poet, and editor active in publishing during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Life Kathleen Tankersley Young was born in Texas on August 15, 1902. This first marriage ended when Henry Coulter Young died of tuberculosis in February, 1925. Kathleen Tankersley Young later married Air Force Lieutenant David Jerome Ellinger in 1929.

In 1929, Young served as an editor for Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms along with her co-editors Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler.

“December portrait”, “Hunger” (two poems). Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. Maureen Honey. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.

"I am troubled at night", "In November the cold waterbirds", "Lily-poem", "San Cristobal", "There was a wall about him", "The days fall off like little leaves", "This hard mirror is a record", "Sheaf of images". Poems edited by Erik La Prade appearing in the article "Kathleen Tankersley Young". TETHER, Issue 3. Milton, PA: Sienese Shredder Editions, 2017. Pp 7-16.

The Collected Works. Edited by Erik La Prade and Joshua Rothes. Seattle: Sublunary Editions, 2022.