C. Dale Young is the author of four collections of poetry: The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern 2001); The Second Person (Four Way Books 2007); Torn (Four Way Books 2011) and The Halo (Four Way Books 2016). He practices medicine full-time, edits poetry for New England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. 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.