Michael T. Young was born in Reading, PA.  He moved to New York City in 1990.  He has published three collections of poetry: Transcriptions of Daylight (Rattapallax Press), Because the Wind Has Questions (Somers Rocks Press), and Living in the Counterpoint (Finishing Line Press).  His next full-length collection, The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost, will be published in 2013 by Eight Ball Press (an imprint of Black Coffee Press).  He received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  He received a William Stafford Award and the Chaffin Poetry Award.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous print and online journals including The Adirondack Review, Barrow Street, The Fine Line, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Literary Bohemian, The Same and Upstreet.  His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising and Chance of a Ghost and forthcoming in The Bug Book, and Red & Black.  He lives with his wife and children in Jersey City, New Jersey.