Katie Bowler Young
Poet and Writer on Art & Visual Culture
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Katie is the author of Enrique Alférez: Sculptor (The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2021), Through Water with Ease (Louisiana Literature, 2019), and State Street (Bull City Press, 2009). She has published poetry and prose in Cold Mountain, Folio, LEON Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, Meridian, Midwest Quarterly, Plainsongs, Soundings East, The Southern Review, and other publications. Her poetry frequently focuses on landscape and environment, and her prose focuses on art, place, and visual culture.
Katie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was awarded the Lisel Mueller Scholarship and a Friends of Writers Scholarship.
She has been a strategic leader in external relations, partnerships, and higher education for 23 years. Katie is a doctoral student in Education Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, with a focus on higher education, at North Carolina State University.