L.A. Young lives in Southern California with her wife and their miniature poodle. She started writing after graduating from UC Berkeley while living in San Francisco in the late 1970s. Later, she became a bonafide Francophile after an eight-year stint in France during the 1980s. 

L.A. returned to California and worked as a public school educator and teacher trainer for almost three decades. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Education from Claremont Graduate University upon her retirement. She continues to train the next generation of educators at California State University, Fullerton, the Orange County Department of Education, and Chapman University.

In addition to her commitment to education, she has returned to her first love: writing. She is a member of the Orange County Chapter of the California Writers Club and the International Memoir Writers Association. She was honored as a 2023 winner of the Memoir Showcase competition from the San Diego Memoir Writers Association.

L.A.’s work has been published in Orange Coast magazine, the California Educator, Between Ourselves: Letters Between Mothers and Daughters, Poetry Superhighway, Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, and Shaking the Tree: Brazen.Short. Memoir.