Terence_Young_(writer)
Terence Young (writer)
Canadian writer (born 1953)
Terence Young (born 1953) is a Canadian writer.[1] He is most noted for his poetry collection The Island in Winter, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1999 Governor General's Awards[2] and for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2000.[3]
The Island in Winter was his debut poetry collection. The following year he published his first short story collection, Rhymes with Useless.[4] He followed up with the novel After Goodlake's in 2004,[5] the poetry collection Moving Day in 2006,[6] and the short story collection The End of the Ice Age in 2010.[7]
Rhymes with Useless was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2001,[8] After Goodlake's won the city of Victoria's Butler Book Prize in 2005,[9] and Moving Day was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2007.[10]
He is married to poet Patricia Young.[11] Their daughter Clea Young is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Teardown was published in 2016.[12]