Young Rader lives and writes in Berlin. His work appears in the Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Little Star, New England Review, New World Writing, Passages North, Smokelong Quarterly, swamp pink, and elsewhere. His stories have been shortlisted for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize and the Berlin Writing Prize. He is the 2023 winner of the Calvino Prize and a 2026 finalist for the FSG Writer’s Fellowship. He is at work on a novel.