Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden.

This collection contains the following stories:

"Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!"
"The Diamond Mine"
"A Gold Slipper"
"Scandal"
"Paul's Case"
"A Wagner Matinee"
"The Sculptor's Funeral"
"A Death in the Desert"