About

Reggie Scott Young is a poet and writer and the author of the poetry collection Yardbirds Squawking at the Moon (Louisiana Literature Press). He has published poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction in Evergreen Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Louisiana Literature, riverSedge, African American Review, Oxford American, and other leading magazines and journals. He is a former recipient of an individual artists grant from the City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture.

He has taught creative writing and literature at Villanova University, LSU, Wheaton College, and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As a scholar, Young’s works of literary criticism have appeared in essay collections and journals, and he also served as co-editor of two books on Louisiana author Ernest J. Gaines. A member of the Macondo and Under the Volcano writers’ workshops, he now lives near Mission Concepción in San Antonio.