C. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of a novel in stories, The Affliction (Four Way Books, 2018), and five collections of poetry, the most recent being Prometeo (Four Way Books, 2021). His next collection Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems (1993-2023) is due out from Four Way Books in 2025. He is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He lives in San Francisco.