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Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong

Creative Writing Instructor (Poetry)

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Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong

Kaylee is from Oregon and lives in New York, where she is the 2025–2027 Lillian Vernon Fellow at NYU's MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her poetry appears in The Adroit Journal, ONLY POEMS, Best New Poets, AGNI, and Pleiades, among others, and has been supported by fellowships and scholarships from Oregon Literary Arts, Mineral Arts & Residencies, the UCross Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

She earned her BA in English from Columbia University and is currently completing her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University.

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