Jacqueline Huynh Young is a Vietnamese-American artist based in Los Angeles with roots in Southern California’s Mojave desert.

A graduate of California Institute of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, her poetry has been featured in Hobart, The Rush, Entropy, and Thalia Magazine. She was named a finalist for the 2017 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Award. Her chapbook The Distance Formula is out through Finishing Line Press.

Of The Distance Formula, Maggie Nelson (On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint) writes, “Jacqueline Young follows the rhythm of her attention with a gentle doggedness, inviting the reader into poems that feel somehow both meticulous and roomy. Her poems are so lucid, so smart, so coiled, so surprising, so quietly probing, I feel the utmost of gratitude for them.”

Group Exhibitions
2025 The Place Above, Artemis Studio, Topanga Canyon, CA

Residencies
2025 Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Edgecomb, ME (Scholarship Recipient)
2014 New York State Summer Writers Institute, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Literary Publications
2023 Praxinoscope, Hours of the Day, “15min in the midday heat”
2020 Thalia Magazine, No. 7 The Issue In Between, “About Watching a Body Dance,” “Some, Round,” “Sofa-stry”
2018 The Rush, “The Bath”
2018 Hobart, “To-may-to To-mah-to,” “An Hour or Two of Guided Meditation,” “Origins of the Milky Way,” “Acquiesce,” “The Distance Formula”
2017 Entropy, “Metempsychosis,” “You Can Be Here, but Only Right Now,” “Ignis Fatuus”

Chapbooks
2019 The Distance Formula, Finishing Line Press 

Awards
2017 Finalist for the 2017 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Award