Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards, 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist; poems appear in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and Subtropics. Young is the translator of Two Poems by Inna Kabysh; her translations of Russophone authors have won international awards and been published widely. Young is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow and serves as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Arlington, Virginia.