Kristen Millares Young is a book critic, essayist, and author of the novel
Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards,
Subduction was a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. Her work appears in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Literary Hub, and the anthologies Advanced Creative Nonfiction, Latina Outsiders, Alone Together, and Broken Free: Writers on Estrangement (Catapult, 2026). A former Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence, she is theeditor of Seismic, a Washington State Book Award finalist. A 2025 Storyknife resident, Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize. Her memoir
Desire Lines will be published by Red Hen Press on October 6, 2026.
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