Patricia Young

Patricia Young (born 1954) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer. She has won numerous poetry competitions and literary awards, including the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition and Pat Lowther Award.

Poetry

Short stories

Anthologies A Walk by the Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris. (Black Moss Press, 1996) Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. (Monitor Book Co., 1995/96). Making Connections: Literacy from a Feminist Perspective. (Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, 1996)

Awards and nominations 1987: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room 1989: Pat Lowther Award for The Mad And Beautiful Mothers 1993: Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still 1997: B.C. Book Prize for What I Remember From My Time On Earth 2000: Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty 2000: Butler Prize, shortlist for Airstream 2006: Airstream included on Globe and Mail's list of best 100 books of the year 2006: Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream 2009: Butler Prize, shortlist for Here Come the Moonbathers

Prizes: poetry

Prizes: fiction Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2000 Matrix, First Prize, 2001 Fiddlehead Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention 2001 Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2001 Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2002 Room of One's Own Fiction Prize, First Prize, 2003 Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2004 Journey Prize, 2004, Short-list This Magazine's Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Second Prize, 2006

Personal life Young was born in Victoria, British Columbia. She married to writer Terence Young. Their daughter, Clea Young, is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Teardown was published in 2016.