Abe Louise Young publishes essays and poetry in magazines such as The Nation, Sierra, New Letters and Texas Monthly. Her work has won the 2017 Marica and Jan Vilcek Prize for Poetry and a Story Prize from Narrative Magazine, among other awards. Young is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Heaven to Me (Headmistress Press, 2017) and Ammonite (Magnolia Press Collective, 2009). Her traveling exhibit, "Poet-to-Poet: A Life in Letters" immerses visitors in intimate handwritten correspondence and offers the public a free art-station where people can write letters of their own.

Other poems by Abe Louise Young in Verse Daily:
September 26, 2004:  "Houses Made Only of Entrance" "In no time, five birds..."

Books by Abe Louise Young:

Other poems on the web by Abe Louise Young:
Two poems
"Coast Funeral"

Abe Louise Young's Website.

About Heaven to Me:

"These poems are lush, melodious, striking. Abe Louise Young isn't afraid to be brash, to be soft, to be big, to be the one to tell the queer kids to keep living. This is a potent and necessary collection."
—Amy King

"These poems by wise, wonderful Abe Louise Young really are heaven to me. As sensual as she is intellectual as she is gigantically celebratory as she is wary, funny, human, playful: Young allows none of these qualities to be sacrificed for the sake of any other. You'll want to let these poems close, so close you feel on your face their 'heavy / secret breathing.'"
—Carrie Fountain

"The poems in Heaven to Me find paradise in women's bodies. Equally, they direct our delight to the body of each poem, to iambs and ampersands. Abe Louise Young's voice is playful and reverent, and these poems of love and loss reward readers like the kiss of a priestess."
—Lisa L. Moore