Kathleen Tankersley Young

Kathleen Tankersley Young (1903–1933) was an African-American poet and editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. "Almost forgotten by literary history, Kathleen Tankersley Young's name appears like a cipher through little magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and in anthologies of Harlem Renaissance and American women's poetry." Young died in Mexico in 1933.

Young was editor at the Modern Editions Press. Together with Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, she started Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms in 1929. She contributed poems to most of the nine issues of Blues. She married David Jerome Ellinger. Her literary friends included Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.