Kristen Millares Young

Journalist and essayist Kristen Millares Young is the author of the award-winning novel Subduction, named a staff pick by The Paris Review. Her book reviews, essays, and investigations appear in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, and the anthologies No Contact, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, and Alone Together, winner of a Washington State Book Award.
A 2025 resident of Storyknife Writers Retreat and Reykjavík Writes, she is the editor of Seismic: Seattle, City of Literature, a Washington State Book Award finalist. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced “Snow Fall,” which won a Pulitzer Prize.
Her memoir-in-essays Desire Lines will be released by Red Hen Press on October 6, 2026. Called “searching, generous, and unrelenting” by Melissa Febos, Desire Lines is a forensic investigation into the emotional topography of being a woman, a writer, and a mother.