Awards
- In 2009 Young won a Fellow Award from United States Artists.
- 2007 Quill Award
- 2007 Patterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement.
- 2003 Finalist for National Book Award and Los Angeles Time Book Award.
- 2003 Winner Patterson Poetry Prize.
- 1993 Most Way Home selected for National Poetry Series by Lucille Clifton, awarded John C. Zacharis First Book Prize from Ploughshares Magazine.
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