Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland. Her books of poetry and prose include It's No Good Everything's Bad, Ursula or University, Picture Palace, and Telling the Future Off. She edited the anthology Bay Poetics and with Juliana Spahr, A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism. Young is a member of the Krupskaya editorial collective and directs the graduate program in creative writing at Mills where she was also on the bargaining team for the first adjunct contract at the college.