[2] At Mills College, Young participated as labor organizer in a successful adjunct unionization campaign.
Her collections of poetry include Telling the Future Off (2005),[4] Picture Palace (2008),[5] and Ursula or University (2013).
[6] She edited the anthology Bay Poetics (2006)[7] and co-edited, along with poet Juliana Spahr, the book A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (2012),[8] a collection of “enactments” investigating politics, feminism, and collaborative poetry practice that the pair performed between 2005 and 2007.
She was a board member at Small Press Traffic, where she curated the Poets Theater festival from 2005 to 2008.
Young's work is noted for being cross-genre and hybrid, integrating text, performance, new media, archival research, and activism.