HANES AWARD FOR POETRY

C. Dale Young, 2017 Recipient

C. Dale Young (born April 18, 1969) grew up in South Florida.  He received a BS from Boston College, and the MFA and MD degrees from the University of Florida. 

The Halo (Four Way Books, 2016), his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for both the 2016 Julie Suk Award (given for best book of poetry published by an independent literary press) and the 2017 Lambda Book Award. He is also the author of Torn (Four Way Books, 2011); The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007); and The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern, 2001). 

He has received many honors and awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.  He practices medicine full-time in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. His novel-in-stories, The Affliction, will be published by Four Way Books in 2018.

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:

Terrance Hayes, 2015

Brooks Haxton, 2013

Kate Daniels, 2011

Maurice Manning, 2009

Kathryn Stripling Byer, 2007
Betty Adcock, 2005

R.H.W. Dillard, 2003

Rodney Jones, 2001

T.R. Hummer, 1999

Yusef Komunyakaa, 1997

Andrew Hudgins, 1995

Ellen Bryant Voigt, 1993

Robert Morgan, 1991

Kelly Cherry, 1989

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