Patricia Young (born 1954 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian poet, and short story writer.
Travelling the Floodwaters. Turnstone Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-88801-082-7. All I Ever Needed Was a Beautiful Room. Oolichan Books. 1987. ISBN 978-0-88982-073-9. The Mad and Beautiful Mothers. Ragweed Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-920304-79-2. Those Were the Mermaid Days. Ragweed Press. 1991. ISBN 0-921556-14-4. More Watery Still. Anansi. 1993. ISBN 978-0-88784-541-3. What I Remember From My Time on Earth: poems. Anansi. 1997. ISBN 978-0-88784-592-5. Ruin and Beauty. House of Anansi Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-88784-649-6. Here Come the Moonbathers. Biblioasis. 2008. ISBN 978-1-897231-43-2. An Auto-Erotic History of Swings. Sono Nis. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55039-178-7. Pilgrimage: Love Poems. JackPine Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-9865426-7-1. Stunned. Leaf Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-926655-35-2. Amateurs At Love. The Alfred Gustav Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9877910-3-0. Airstream. Biblioasis. 2006. ISBN 978-1-897231-01-2. A Walk by the Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris. (Black Moss Press, 1996).Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. (Monitor Book Co., 1995/96).Making Connections: Literacy from a Feminist Perspective. (Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, 1996)Awards and nominations
Butler Prize, shortlist for Here Come The Moonbathers, 2009Airstream included on Globe and Mail's list of best 100 books of the year 2006Butler Prize, shortlist for Airstream, 2000Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream, 2006Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty, 2000B.C. Book Prize for What I Remember From My Time On Earth, 1997Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still, 1993Pat Lowther Award for The Mad And Beautiful Mothers, 1989Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed Was A Beautiful Room, 1987Federation of B. C. Writers, Literary Rites Competition, 1987, First PrizeNational Magazine Award, 1988C.B.C. Literary Competition, 1988, Second PrizeLeague of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition, Co-winnerAya Press Tenth Anniversary Literary Competition, First Prize, 1989League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, 1993, Second PrizeGrain Prose Poem Contest, Co-winner, 1995League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996CV2 Annual Poetry Contest, First Prize, 1996Room of One's Own Poetry Contest, 1996League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, Second Prize, 1997George Woodcock Poetry Contest, Canada India Village Aid, First Prize, 1997The Stephen Leacock Poetry Award: The Orillia International Poetry Festival, 1997Mothertongue Chapbook Competition, second prize, 1998Grain Prose Poem Prize, co-winner, 1998Prairie Fire, Bliss Carmen Award, First Prize, 1998Grain Postcard Story Prize, Co-winner, 1999National Magazine Award for Poetry, silver, 1999Room of One’s Own, Poetry Contest, second prize, 2007Prairie Fire, second prize, 2008Grain, Prose Poem Prize, Co-winner, 2008Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2008Room of One’s Own Poetry Contest, second prize, 2008Fiddlehead Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, 2009C. B. C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2009Malahat Review Long Poem Competition, shortlist, 2009 & 2011Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, first prize, 2009Malahat Review Open Season Award, shortlist, 2009 & 2012Bridport Poetry Prize (UK), shortlist, 2009C.B.C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2010Prism International Poetry Competition, Honourable Mention, 2010The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Contest, Third Prize, 2010The New Quarterly, Occasional Verse Contest, Second Prize, 2010The Confederation Poet’s Prize, 2010C.B.C. Literary Awards, finalist, 2011The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Contest, First Prize, 2011Room of One’s Own Poetry Contest, First Prize, 2011Montreal International Poetry Prize, shortlist, 2011Malahat Review, Open Season Award, shortlist, 2012Prism International Poetry Competition, Third Prize, 2012Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2000Matrix, First Prize, 2001Fiddlehead Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention 2001Other Voices Fiction Award, First Prize, 2001Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2002Room of One’s Own Fiction Prize, First Prize, 2003Fiddlehead Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2004Journey Prize, 2004, Short-listThis Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Second Prize, 2006 
