Reggie Young

ABOUT REGGIE SCOTT YOUNG

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Dr. Reggie Scott Young is Associate Professor of English at UL Lafayette. He teaches American literature courses, a Blues literature course, varioius other courses in American ethnic literatures, modern fiction courses, and creative writing (fiction and creative non-fiction). He is a scholar, creative prose writer, and poet who grew up in Chicago. He compiled and edited Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays by Ernest J. Gaines (Knopf, with Marcia Gaudet), and recently co-edited This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me: The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines (University of Louisiana Press). His scholarly work has appeared in The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Contemporary African American Literature: New Critical Essays, Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference, August Wilson and Black Aesthetics, The Christian Imagination: Essays on Literature and Writing, and other publications. He is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop and his poems and stories have appeared in The Oxford American, African American Review, The Christian Century, Contact II, Blind Alleys, and the West Side Stories anthology. Among his creative honors are the Gwendolyn Brooks Poet Laureate Award for Significant Illinois Poets and the PEN Discovery Award for fiction. Most of his creative works are set in his native Chicago West Side neighborhood that he writes about as Bluesville.