Kate Young

Kate Young grew up in Norwich where she completed her teaching degree. She moved to Kent in 1978 to start a long teaching career and still enjoys the odd day working in KS1. She lives with her husband, her grown-up children having 'flown the nest'! She has been passionate about poetry and literature since childhood. Her work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Words for the Wild, Poetry on the Lake, Sea Changes, The Poet, The Alchemy Spoon, Dreich, Fly on the Wall Press, Poetry Scotland,...See more

Kate Young grew up in Norwich where she completed her teaching degree. She moved to Kent in 1978 to start a long teaching career and still enjoys the odd day working in KS1. She lives with her husband, her grown-up children having 'flown the nest'! She has been passionate about poetry and literature since childhood. Her work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Words for the Wild, Poetry on the Lake, Sea Changes, The Poet, The Alchemy Spoon, Dreich, Fly on the Wall Press, Poetry Scotland, City, Town & Village, Boundaries & Borders and New Ways of Looking at Rye Harbour. She has also been published in the anthologies Places of Poetry and Beyond the Storm. Some of her poems appeared in Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity, published by Hedgehog Press. Her pamphlet A Spark in the Darkness was also published by Hedgehog Press.Find her on Twitter @Kateyoung12poet. See less