Yong-Yu Huang

I study computer science and English literature at Northwestern University, where I'm a Franke Undergraduate Fellow. I edit Helicon, and I also work on web projects and report for The Daily Northwestern. In the past, I've interned for Encyclopædia Britannica and edited features for North By Northwestern. I've been a Kaplan Humanities Scholar and a Leopold Fellow, and I've won the William Faricy Poetry Award, the Helen G. Scott Essay Prize, and the Kaplan Humanities Scholars Prize.

My creative work appears in Waxwing, The Adroit Journal, The Offing, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. I was a commended poet in the Poetry Society of the UK's 2024 National Poetry Competition and the recipient of the 2021 Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize. My work has recognized by Best Small Fictions, the Hippocrates Society, and the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program, among others. In my free time, I can be found taking pictures of my friends, listening to Lorde, or going on a walk.

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