Discipline: Literature – poetry

Judith Taylor

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999, 2001

Judith Taylor is the author of three poetry collections, Curios (Sarabande Books), Selected Dreams from the Animal Kingdom (Zoo Press), and Sex Libris (What Books) as well as the co-editor of Air Fare: Stories, Poems and Essays on Flying (Sarabande Books). Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies and journals, including Poetry, APR, Boston Review, Fence, The Antioch Review, Pleiades, and Court Green. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and has been awarded residencies to Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, Djerassi, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Taylor’s photographs have been published in Lana Turner, The Writing Disorder, and The World is a Text. From 1975-91 she was on the faculty of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. These days she teaches literature classes privately. Taylor is one of the founding editors of POOL: A Journal of Poetry and has managed and co-edited the journal since its inception in 2002.

Studios

Calderwood

Judith Taylor worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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