Sam Taylor is the author of three books of poems: Body of the World, Nude Descending an Empire, and The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse. His poems, ranging in theme from mysticism to ecology and social justice, have appeared in such journals as The New Republic, AGNI, Cincinnati Review, and Kenyon Review.
A native of Miami, he has been a wilderness caretaker in the mountains of northern New Mexico and traveled around the world with the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He currently tends a wild garden in Kansas, where he is a professor in the M.F.A. program at Wichita State.
At MacDowell, Taylor worked toward completing his fourth book of poems, tentatively titled My Life in Black and White, a collection focused on themes of identity and diaspora.
Portrait by Riley Corrine
