Kristen Millares Young

Kristen Millares Young is a novelist, journalist, essayist, and the author of the memoir Desire
Lines (Red Hen Press, October 6, 2026), a Ms. Magazine “Most Anticipated Feminist Book”
called “searching, generous, and unrelenting” by Melissa Febos. Her novel Subduction was a staff
pick of The Paris Review and deemed “whip-smart” by the Washington Post, “a brilliant debut”
by the Seattle Times, and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. 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, book reviews, and investigations appear in the
Washington Post, the Guardian, Literary Hub, and the anthologies No Contact, Advanced
Creative Nonfiction, Latina Outsiders, and Alone Together, winner of a 2021 Washington State
Book Award. In 2025, Kristen was in residence for the Storyknife Writers Retreat and for a
UNESCO Cities of Literature fellowship in Reykjavík, Iceland. A former Prose Writer-in-
Residence at Hugo House, she is the editor of Seismic, a finalist for a 2021 Washington State
Book Award. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow
Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.

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