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Humanities Division
Continuing Lecturer
Director, Cowell Press
Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair at Cowell College
Faculty
Kresge College
Cowell College
Porter College
Humanities Building 1
Humanities Building 1, Room 229
Cowell Press
Humanities Academic Services
Gary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Vogelstein Foundation, the California Arts Council, and two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received a Pushcart Prize, and his latest book of poems, That's What I Thought, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award from Persea Books. His book The Dream of a Moral Life, won the James D. Phelan Award. He is the author of several other collections of poetry including Hands; Days; Braver Deeds, winner the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; No Other Life, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Pleasure; and most recently, Even So: New and Selected Poems. He is the co-editor of The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place; Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California; and One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form. He has produced a series of artist’s books, most notably Nine Days: New York, A Throw of the Dice and My Place Here Below. Since 1975 he has designed, illustrated, and printed limited edition books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Getty Center for the Arts, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate, and he is Santa Cruz County’s 2012 Artist of the Year. He teaches Creative Writing and directs the Cowell Press at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The prose poem; fine printing; print making; publishing and book design.
Poetry, Book Arts, print making and book design.
2021 Blue Light Poetry Prize for Red Cedar, Red Pine
2017 Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair at Cowell College
2017 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, Persea Books
2014 Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College
2014 George Bogin Memorial Award
2013 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
2012 Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year
2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America
2010 Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate
2003 & 1981, National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship Grants
2002 William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America
2001 Lyric Poem Award of the Poetry Society of America
1992 Pushcart Prize
1998 Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize
1998 Amaranth Prose Poetry Prize
1996 Adrienne Lee Award in Poetry
1994 Western Books Exhibition Competition Winner
1993 California Arts Council Grant in Poetry
1992 Pushcart Prize
1991 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant in Poetry
1990 Dewar’s Young Artists Recognition Award in Literature
1990 The John Ciardi Fellowship in Poetry
1986 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
1986 James D. Phelan Award in Literature
