Meet the Poet
Wasentha Young
Wasentha Young has been involved in the arts since her early teens. A native New Yorker, city life has offered her many opportunities for creative expression. She has written about, painted, and studied Eastern health arts. More recently she has become a writer of short stories, children books, and poetry; she is a mosaic artist; and a master of Tai Chi and Qigong (Energy Work), also appearing in Yang Style Short Form: T'ai Chi Ch'uan—Meditation in Motion. Most of her writing has been published in national and local magazines and newsletters such as Qi Journal, Tai Chi Journal, Natural Awakenings and Crazy Wisdom Journal. She has also won the University of Michigan "Excellence in Patient Education" (2006) for a series of children’s books focused on cultural diversity in different models of physical activity, entitled Move Your Body. Her poetry and short stories have been publically read and performed in bookstores in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM as well as The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI. She maintains a website at www.wasentha.com, and invites your visit. Read.