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Andalyn Young

Andalyn Young is a writer and dancer based in Philadelphia. Her writing has appeared in Seneca Review and on Montez Press Radio, and has been supported by Granta Writers’ Workshops and the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. She is at work on her first book.

Nonfiction

Summer 2025

The Trying

By Andalyn Young

Write the van. How when a friend eventually realized or admitted or accepted that the cancer would kill her, she bought a van. How the living room filled with faux […]