Young’s story “Vain Beasts” is one of 12 winners of the $2,000 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Also: Jeffrey Ford’s A Natural History of Hell: Stories was a finalist for the Ohioana Award and Sofia Samatar’s Tender: Stories is a finalist for the British Fantasy Award. She has two short story collections, The Bone Key and Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, and has co-written three novels and a number of short stories with Elizabeth Bear, the most recent of which is An Apprentice to Elves.