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Lindsay Young is a poet from New York, residing in Richmond, Virginia. She competed at the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam and represented the city of New York as a member of The Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s 2018 National Poetry Slam team, where she was crowned a 2018 NUPIC (National Underground Poetry Individual Competition) Co-Champion. She was a member of the 2019 Brooklyn Slam team and is the author of “Salt to Taste,” her debut book of poetry published in the Summer of 2019. They are a Winter Tangerine alumnus, a 2020 Watering Hole fellow, and their work has been published in The Mark Literary Review, The Offing Magazine, and elsewhere. Young currently works as a freelance poet and workshop facilitator, and is getting her MSW from Columbia University.