Stephanie Young’s books of poetry and prose include Ursula or University, It’s No Good Everything’s Bad, and Pet Sounds, which received a Lambda Literary Award.

Young’s scholarship has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, American Literary History, and the Post45 Data Collective. Crowd Control, written with Claire Grossman and Juliana Spahr, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2026.

Her recent research positions Phil Lesh as a central figure in the afterlives of Bay Area experimentalism, placing his work in conversation with Pauline Oliveros to examine how improvisation, dance, and post-1995 community formations operate as forms of collective memory.

Young is head of the Creative Writing program at Mills College at Northeastern University, where she teaches and studies Creative Writing in the Age of AI.

She is a member of the Krupskaya Books editorial collective and co-authors the Substack Touch of Grey with Clive Worsley.