Jake Adam York, United States, (1972-2012), poetry includes: Elegy for Little Girls. York was a poet, editor and educator. He received his MFA and PhD in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University. York was an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center. He published three books of poetry before his death and a fourth was released posthumously. At the University of Colorado he was an editor for Copper Nickel, a nationally recognized student literary journal which he had helped found.
Jake Young, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: RISING. Young is a poet, editor and Certified Specialist of Wine. He is completing his PhD in English Literature at the University of Missouri–Columbia. His first collection of poems is American Oak (2018). He also serves as the poetry editor for the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Kevin Lowell Young, United States, (b. 1970), poetry includes: Ode to Pork and WHOLE HOG. Young is a poet, professor, editor and literary critic. He is Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker.
Moon Bo Young, South Korea, (b. 1992), poetry includes: The Poet and the Pig. Young is a poet who has a hard time waiting for her nail polish to dry. Her poetry collection Pillar of Books won the 36th Kim Soo-young Literary Award, and with the prize money, she had a pizza party with her friends. When it gets windy where she lives she put a flat rock on top of her hat.
Ouyang Yu, China/Australia, (b. 1955), poetry includes: The Pig Incident and The Confessions of a Pig. Yu is a poet, critic, translator, editor and novelist. In 1996, he co-founded Australia’s first Chinese-language literary journal Otherland [Yuanxiang], which he has continued to run as editor.
Changming Yuan, Canada (contemporary), poetry includes: 20 Imperial Imperatives. Changming Yuan [pen name of Yuan Wumin] is a poet, editor and publisher. An 8-time Pushcart nominee, Yuan has had poetry appearing in more than 800 literary journals/anthologies across 29 countries. He is also the Founding Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Poetry Pacific at Poetry Pacific Press (PP Press).
Maya Jewell Zeller, United States, (contemporary), poetry includes: TORI AMOS NURSING THE PIG. Zeller is a poet and educator. She is an Assistant Professor, teaching creative writing, at Central Washington University. And serves as fiction editor for Crab Creek Review and poetry editor for Scablands Books.
Fay Zwicky (born: Julia Fay Rosefield), Australia, (1933-2017), poetry includes: Gall Tripartite and Paperbacks. Zwicky was a poet, short story author, reviewer, anthology editor, essayist and an accomplished concert pianist. She was also a lecturer in American and Comparative Literature at the University of Western Australia from 1972 until her retirement in 1987.
