Kate Young was brought up in Norwich and trained as a teacher before settling in Kent. Her work has been published in webzines and journals including Fly on the Wall, Alchemy Spoon, The Ekphrastic Review and Poetry Scotland. Kate’s poetry can be heard on Words for the Wild and the Podcast Poetry Worth Hearing. Her poem ‘Fear’ was placed 2nd in The Canterbury Poet of the Year Competition, 2022. Her pamphlets A Spark in the Darkness and Beyond the School Gate have been published by Hedgehog Press and Laying Down Bones will be published by them early next year.

Kate Young's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.