Books by Stephanie Young
In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, 2008
Poetry.
Papers by Stephanie Young
Post45 data collective, Dec 7, 2022
The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes three related datasets. The first is a data... more The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes three related datasets. The first is a dataset of the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over. The data was collected by hand mainly from institutional websites. Gender and higher education data for individuals was collected from author biographies, interviews, and other materials. Some information about judges not listed on websites was obtained through correspondence with institutions. The dataset includes details about the winners of fifty-two unique prizes awarded by twenty-two institutions. For a subset of thirty-nine prizes, it includes details about judges; not every prize has complete judge data. It does not include prizes awarded specifically for children’s literature, nonfiction, drama, or translation.
American Literary History, 2021
This article examines the contradictions of the contemporary literary field that appears both inc... more This article examines the contradictions of the contemporary literary field that appears both increasingly capacious and more exclusionary than in the past. Discussing the expansion of publishing enabled by digital and online technologies, we note that these changes did not reshape the demographics of most published works in the US, which remain overwhelmingly white authored. We then turn to literary prizes as an indicator of who writes prestige literature, narrating the twentieth-century formation of a racially segregated field and its slow changes against the backdrop of publishing overproduction. Combining a history of prestige literary culture with a demographic analysis of prizewinning writers (1918–2019), we discuss how a mostly white, New Critic-dominated field became the much more diverse and wide-ranging scene of the present. While this area has importantly opened up to writers of different backgrounds, our data show that the inequities of earlier prizegiving now take shape...
From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, 2017
The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture, 2017
Book Reviews by Stephanie Young
Review of Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, tr. Ariana Reines
Los Angeles Review of Books, 2017
THE SHEER SCALE of the recent Women's March could be seen not only in numbers and aerial shots bu... more THE SHEER SCALE of the recent Women's March could be seen not only in numbers and aerial shots but also in the multiplicity of signs on display. One read "I'm with her" and featured arrows pointing in every direction, suggesting how solidarity might exceed Hillary Clinton's electoral politics. Others called out controversies that marked the event from the beginning: "I'll see you nice white ladies at the next #Black Lives Matters march, right?" In a sea of pink hats, some noticed a troubling correspondence between gender and genitals. ese divisions-racial, sexual, economic-are as long as the history of US feminisms. More vexed and unruly than it often appears in the popular imaginary, that history also includes surprising moments of alliance. Similarly, signs from the Women's March traveled to mass airport protests the following weekend: "Resist," "NOPE," "become ungovernable," and again, "I'm With Her," this time the arrows pointing to Shepard Fairey's inaugural protest images of a woman wearing a US ag hijab. Today, it is crucial to revisit the feminist past, from underground abortion service Jane to the mutual aid and resistance of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. Much of that past still remains submerged, invisible, if just under the surface of daily life and discourse. Forty years ago, the Oakland neighborhood where I live was home to one of the rst feminist bookstores in the United States, Information Center Incorporate: A Woman's Place. e bookstore has long since disappeared. When it is remembered, it is usually for an early a liation with Judy Grahn's Women's
Polemics by Stephanie Young
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2019
Creative by Stephanie Young
A) Glimpse) Of), 2020
When they woke up they did not remember Woody Allen for a moment. Did not yet remember the little... more When they woke up they did not remember Woody Allen for a moment. Did not yet remember the little dog from someone's speech, nor the lectern someone stood behind to give it, a speech about education delivered in the usual way save this story in the middle that puzzled them, all about a little dog who cared for an abandoned human baby.
Mantis, 2019
Danielle's pain Lisa's spine Caren's uterus Leora's entire pelvis the sentences of Trisha and Dia... more Danielle's pain Lisa's spine Caren's uterus Leora's entire pelvis the sentences of Trisha and Diana and Amy my diamond of incisions my insides full of bad candy a bloody baby person in mesh lil crone leaning into it the world that hates them to see the way it will and won't forever Stephanie Young Poems from Not Done Burning Alice ordered all of us not just one or some percentage Alice said there were no babies in poetry then and how could that have been? and what are we leaving out now? Chantal Ackerman said Her body so small, so gaunt and wrapped in her duvet. My heart hurts. It wasn't like this before but it is like this and I tell myself it's happening, and will happen to me too, most likely.
Harriet, Poetry Foundation, 2015
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