Kevin Young (poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kevin Young (poet)

American poet

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1970

Place of Birth: Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

Profession: poet, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Kevin Lowell Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry.
Author of 11 books and editor of eight others, Young has been a winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a finalist for the National Book Award for his collection Jelly Roll: A Blues.
Young has served as Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and curator of Emory's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, as well as Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
In March 2017, Young became poetry editor of The New Yorker.