Jake Young is a Senior Policy Analyst with the American Medical Association’s Ethics Group and the author of the novella Shared Perspectives (forthcoming 2025), winner of The 2024 Orison Prize in Fiction, the essay collection True Terroir (2019), the poetry collections American Oak (2018), What they Will Say (2021), and All I Wanted (2021), and co-translator of the and poetry collection Desnuda / Naked (2022). He received his MFA from North Carolina State University, his PhD from the University of Missouri, and his MPH from the University of Chicago, where he was also a Fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Much of his critical work focuses on the craft, theory, and history of poetry and translation; the intersections of food, drink, and literature; as well as the health humanities, bioethics, and public health policy. Young is a Certified Specialist of Wine through the Society of Wine Educators, and he also serves as the poetry editor for the Chicago Quarterly Review.