About Dylan

Dylan Pallickara is student at Poudre High School in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the Kenyon Review's Young Writers Workshop, and the Yale Young Global Scholars program. His research in AI on computer assisted recognition of the American Sign Language has been selected to appear in the proceedings of the prestigious AAAI conference to be held in Vancouver, Canada in February 2024. His work in poetry has appeared in The American Anthology of High School Poetry and The Dungeness Press. He was also named a second round finalist for the International Bridport Poetry Prize. In Fall 2023, he was named a National Merit Semifinalist.