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Prose & Poetry



I write creative creative nonfiction, poetry, and children's fiction.

I have written interpretive and curriculum for museums, parks, educational centers, and governmental agencies.
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I am available for short term projects.



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For recordings of many of the following publications,
visit the PODCASTS page

Or visit Pageturner Radio online through
 https://wdrt.org/catherine-young/

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Click on any of the highlighted writings below  to read the texts

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Catherine's essay, "Island," nominated for the Pushcart Prize​,
was published in the literary journal Midwest Review 5 in 2017.


        Listen to a recording of Island on the PODCASTS page 
         or read it here: "Island"


Catherine's essay, "Coal Year," published in Kestrel in Fall 2017,
was nominated for The Best American Essays
.

       Listen to a recording of Coal Year on the PODCASTS page 
       or read it here: "Coal Year"


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Forthcoming

"Invisi / disa bility in COVID Times" 
will be published in 
​Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology by West Virginia University Press Press, 2021
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Prose
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"Smoke," About Place Geographies of Justice, (online) Spring 2021
Go to - "Smoke " in About Place Journal Geographies of Justice

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The Crystalline Bed of St.Peter" 
​Stillpoint Arts Quarterly, 
 
(online & print ) Love of Land Issue # 41 Spring 2021          
  Go to - http://catherineyoungwriter.weebly.com/the-crystalline-bed-of-st-peter.html
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"Island," Midwest Review (print) Issue 5: 2017

"Island" nominated for the Pushcart Prize


Listen to a recording of Island on the Podcasts page 
                          or read it here: "Island"

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"Water Song"
 The Driftless Reader (print anthology)
 University of  Wisconsin Press, 2017 
          
& in ​About Place (online)
Volume II, Issue III, ​The Future of Water, December 2013

 Go to - ​https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-future-of-water/work/catherine-young/

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"Island  Voices," Permanent Vacation II 
 
(print anthology) 
Bona Fide Books, 2018
 &  in 
 The Island Review (online) May 2017
         
 Go to - ​http://theislandreview.com/content/island-voices-raspberry-island-lake-superior-lighthouse-catherine-young-memoir

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​"Coal Year," Kestrel (print & online) Issue 37: Spring 2017
​
   "Coal Year" nominated for Best American Essays  

     Listen
 to a recording of Coal Year on the Podcasts page 
     or read it here: "Coal Year"
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"Emerging: January 24,1959,"
Anamesa Journal (print) Fall   



Read it here - ​Emerging

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"Midsommar," Foliate Oak (online) March 2017 

Read it here - Midsommar by Catherine Young for Foliate Oak

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​"A Cup of Tea," Punctuate, (online) March 2017
               
 Go to - ​​https://blogs.colum.edu/punctuate/?s=A+Cup+of+Tea

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"Recipe By Heart," Hippocampus (online) September 2016

Go to - ​​http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2016/09/recipe-by-heart-by-  catherine-young/

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"Sweet Beginnings,"

"How to Tap a Maple Tree,"

"Maple Popcorn"


 Cricket children's literature print magazine) March 2015
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Read it here - ​​Sweet Beginnings childen's fiction for Cricket Magazine

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"Water, Tree, Heart: Mapping the Driftless Area," 
             Imagination & Place: Cartography, (print anthology) 2013

Read it here - Water Tree Heart Mapping the Driftless Area 2013 Imagination and Place Cartography

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"Rediscovering Intricacy," 
About Place (online) Volume III, Issue II,
Voices of the Human Spirit, November 2013 

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Go to - ​https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/voices/section-3/catherine-young-2/

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​"Finding Laura's Wisconsin," 
National Finalist Essay in Little House Big Story Contest
Celebrating 150th Birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Wisconsin State Historical Society, 2017

Read it here:  Finding Laura's Wisconsin

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"Nettles, Swans, and May's Green Harvest," 
Edible Madison (online) May 2017

Read it here - Nettles, Wild Swans, and May's Green Harvest by Catherine Young for Edible Madison

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"And Then I Went Back to the Land" 
 Saltfront (studies in human habit(at) (print) Issue 8: Fall 2019

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"St. Anthony Comes Around," 
 Extra Innings (online) Issue #76, February 2016

Go to - ​​​St. Anthony Comes Around

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Passager Pandemic Diaries entry April 21, 2020

Go to - ​​​Passager Pandemic Diary

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​Poems


“In the Antique Mall,” Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar 2021,
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets



“In Dark Times We Gather Light,” Tiny Seed Journal, August 2020
https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/08/03/in-dark-times-we-gather-light/


“Women Tending,” About Place (online) Volume VI:I, Practices of Hope, May 2020​ 
https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/practices-of-hope/tending-together/catherine-young/

                                                                         
“
Art Goes Unbidden" and "Barn Elegiac,"
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Contours (print anthology) Driftless Writing Center, 2020

 

"Gathering Acorns, Hoarding Words​" (online) 
Cold Mountain Review Spring/Summer 2019

https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/spring-summer-2019/gathering-acorns-hoarding-words-by-catherine-young


"Superior" and "Waters Silvered," (print) Common Ground Review Volume 20 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2019


"Stippled Passing" and "A Parallelogram," River Heron (online) 2019
“A Parallelogram” nominated for Pushcart Prize

https://www.riverheronreview.com/issue-21#/catherine-young

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"Panoramic," Passager (print) 2019


"July 4" and "Farmer, Janus," Flyway Journal of Writing & Environment (print) 2018
http://flywayjournal.org/poetry/farmer-janus-and-july-4-catherine-young/


"Lost At Sea," Camas (print) 2018


"Relief Line 1960" Wisconsin Chapbook Against Hunger, November 2018


"Firefly Nights," Ascent (online) June 2018
https://readthebestwriting.com/firefly-nights-catherine-young/


"Lighting the Menorah," Cricket (print) November/December Issue 2018

"Stone Circle," Fourth River (print) Spring 2018

"Verdancy" and "Hymenoptera I: Wasps," Reliquiae (online) December 2017

"Minus Forty," Aqueous (print) Volume 12, Issue 2: Fall 2017

"Express Route Madison," (broadside) Madison Metro Buslines Poetry Project 2017



"At a Loss," Minding Nature (online) Volume 10:2 May 2017
https://www.humansandnature.org/at-a-loss


"Mapping the Empty Lot" and "Dear Sara," Freshwater (print) May 2017

"Volute," Wisconsin Review (print) Volume 50.1: Fall 2016



"Smock," Literary Mama (online journal) February 2017
https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2017/02/smock


"Shoreline Instructions for Lake Superior,"
Aqueous (print) Volume 11, Issue 1: Summer 2016


"My Mother Had a Relationship," Feile-Festa, (online) May 2015
https://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v009/poetry/young.html


"Maple Syruping," Fermentation Festival
and
Farm Art/Dtour Pass Words (broadside) 2012
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