Terence Young (writer)

Terence Young (born 1953) is a Canadian writer.^[1] He is most noted for his poetry collection The Island in Winter, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1999 Governor General's Awards^[2] and for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2000.^[3]

The Island in Winter was his debut poetry collection. The following year he published his first short story collection, Rhymes with Useless.^[4] He followed up with the novel After Goodlake's in 2004,^[5] the poetry collection Moving Day in 2006,^[6] and the short story collection The End of the Ice Age in 2010.^[7]

Rhymes with Useless was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2001,^[8] After Goodlake's won the city of Victoria's Butler Book Prize in 2005,^[9] and Moving Day was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2007.^[10]

He is married to poet Patricia Young.^[11] Their daughter Clea Young is also a writer, whose debut short story collection Teardown was published in 2016.^[12]