Kristen Millares Young

Young graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in History and Literature of Latin America, citations in Latin American Studies and Spanish in 2003.[1] In 2010, Young served as a multimedia reporting fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.[1] She went on to earn her master of fine arts in creative writing and was a GO-MAP Fellow at the University of Washington from 2010–2012.[1] She is the Prose Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House in Seattle, Washington.[2][3]

Young started out as a general assignment reporter intern for Time magazine, the Buenos Aires Herald, and the Miami Herald.[1] For four years, she served as a business reporter and later political beat reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.[1] She is the cofounder and board chair of InvestigateWest,[4] a nonprofit newsroom.[5]

While at The New York Times, Young contributed to "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek", which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and a Peabody Award.[6]

Young has also written freelance articles for publications including The Washington Post and the Guardian.[7][8][9] She also teaches creative writing in English and Spanish at Hugo House, the Port Townsend Writers' Conference and the Seattle Public Library.

Young earned the following awards as contributing researcher for the New York Times team that produced Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

• American Society of Newspaper Editors (Punch Sulzberger Award for Online Storytelling, 2013)
• Pictures of the Year International (Best E-Project), 2013[20]

Other awards

• Society of American Business Editors and Writers (Best in Business, General Excellence, 2007)
• Society of Professional Journalists' Pacific Northwest Chapter (Second Place for Comprehensive Coverage, 2007) and (First Place for Best Government Reporting, 2006, with Ruth Teichroeb; Best Online Business Adaption, 2006)