Kristen Millares Young is a journalist, essayist and author of the novel "Subduction," named a staff pick by The Paris Review and called “whip-smart” by the Washington Post, “a brilliant debut” by the Seattle Times and “utterly unique and important” by Ms. Magazine. Winner of Nautilus and IPPY awards, "Subduction" was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and named a finalist for two International Latino Book Awards and Foreword Indies Book of the Year. "Subduction" was selected as one of “the year’s best books” by Electric Literature and featured by journals such as BOMB, the Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Ploughshares. 

A 2025 resident of the Storyknife Writers Retreat, Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced Snow Fall, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Her essays, book reviews and investigations appear in the Washington Post, the Guardian, Literary Hub and the anthologies "Advanced Creative Nonfiction," "Latina Outsiders" and "Alone Together," winner of a Washington State Book Award. A former Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House, she is the editor of "Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature," a Washington State Book Award finalist. Her memoir "Desire Lines" will be published by Red Hen Press in October 2026. As a workshop leader, she believes kindness is the greatest form of rigor. Find her work at www.kristenmyoung.com. @kristenmillares