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 Ninemuses, 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 Liberté, égalité, fraternité, published by Hedgehog Press.She was placed 3rd in the Vernal Equinox Competition in 2021, won the Tiny Things competition from Stirling Makar and was commended in the 2022 Indigo Poetry Prize.Find her on Twitter @Kateyoung12poet.