Patricia Young

Patricia Young (born 1954, Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer.

Writing
Daily Gleaner: "The dazzling lyric voice, pictorial quality, empathy, and terror of Young's Ruin and Beauty: New & Selected Poems (House of Anansi) is conspicuous, as is the poet's interest in the close connection between love and loss. What appears to have changed is the attitude toward experience that informs her writing."

Recoognition

 * 1993 Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still
 * 2000 Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty.
 * 1990 Pat Lowther Award
 * 1998 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
 * 2003 cbc Literary Competition
 * League of Canadian Poets? National Poetry Competition
 * 2006 Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream

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)