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 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.

His published creative works date back to his days as a young community poet and writer Chicago, where is founded and led the Lawndale Renaissance\Bluesville Workshop. Besides numerous poems, short stories, and creative essay in literary magazines and journals, he is also the author of the poetry collection Yardbirds Squawking at the Moon (Louisiana Literature Press). A new personal essay, “Son of a Natural Man” will appear in Evergreen Review this September (2025).