Danae Younge’s debut chapbook, Melanin Sun (-) Blind Spots grapples with the loss of her father, missing history, and identity as multiracial queer woman in a cis-white-heteropatriarchy. Younge’s chapbook is composed of ten poems that orbit the persistent requirement of identification in spaces that I, as white woman, have been able to move fluidly through. […]
Danae Younge
DANAE YOUNGE is a four-time award-winning poet and an editor for Kalopsia Literary Journal. At twenty years old, Danae’s work has been internationally recognized by Zone 3 Press, Salamander Magazine, Petrichor, and over forty other publications as well as five worldwide print anthologies. She was a winner of National Poetry Quarterly’s annual contest in 2020 & placed in the international It’s All Write competition. Her flash fiction piece, “Skeletons Don’t,” was longlisted in Grindstone Literary’s international competition for all ages. Melanin Sun (–) Blind Spots is her debut collection and she is currently working on her second chapbook. Get updates and read more of her work at danaeyounge.com
