Scott V. Young

Education:

Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR.
MFA in Fiction, (awarded January, 2012)

San Francisco State University
Single Subject Teaching Credential
Graduate Creative Writing Coursework

University of California, Berkeley, Extension
Coursework in Landscape Architecture

San Francisco City College
Coursework in Environmental Horticulture

University of California, San Diego
BA in English Literature, with minors in Creative Writing, Health Policy
Member: Health Professions Honors Program

Experience:

Faculty, Forest Charter School, Nevada City, CA.
Senior English, Creative Writing, General Math, Physical Education

Faculty, Nevada City School of the Arts, Nevada City, CA.

6th-8th grade English and 6th grade general

Long-term sub, Grizzly Hill School, North San Juan, CA.

English Teacher, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep HS, San Francisco, CA.

Contractor/Owner, After Eden Fine Gardens, Sausalito, CA.

General Manager, The City Store, a non-profit employment development retail training for homeless men and women, San Francisco, CA.

Owner, Charlotte's Web Children's Bookstore, San Francisco, CA.

Co-founder, INK Magazine, San Francisco, CA.

Co-founder, Riding Emphasizing Individual Needs and Strengths (REINS), a non-profit therapeutic horseback riding program, San Diego, CA.

Other Interests:

Family and friends, pets, poetry (published in Yuba Flows, Manzanita, Poetry Now), writing, reading, acting (several local plays), hiking, skiing, gardening, cooking, travel, thinking (devising imaginative solutions for global or local problems while driving).