Joshua Young

Poet, writer, and filmmaker Joshua Young was born in Seattle and grew up in Bellingham, Washington. He earned his BA and MA at Western Washington University and his MFA from Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of the verse-play The Holy Ghost People (2014); with Chas Hoppe, The Diegesis (2013); To the Chapel of Light (2012); and When the Wolves Quit: A Play-in-Verse (2012). His first feature-length film, Do You See Colors When You Close Your Eyes? (2010), was an official selection at the Seattle International Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, and Montreal International Black Film Festival. His follow-up film, Into the Lavender Creases of Evening, is currently in postproduction, and he is at work on another film, A Carnage in the Lovetrees.
 
Young is editor in chief of the Lettered Streets Press and director of the BA Program in Creative Writing–Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago. He lives in Chicago with his family.