Margaret Young is the author of Willow from the Willow, Almond Town, and Blight Summer. A chapbook, How Else Can We Know What’s Beautiful?, and full-length collection The Water Bear are forthcoming. She has translated two books from the Spanish, Sergio Inestrosa’s Espacio Improbable de un haikú and Luna que no cesa. Young is on the faculty of the Global Center for Advanced Studies and lives in Beverly, Massachusetts.