Joe Taylor

Joe Taylor was mysteriously born in Cincinnati to be transported immediately to Corbin, Kentucky. He then lived in Lexington and Bardstown before moving to Tallahassee, Florida, where he obtained a Ph.D., with much help and understanding from that university’s faculty. He has had three story collections published (The World’s Thinnest Fat Man; Some Heroes, Some Heroines, Some Others; and Masques for the Fields of Time). Also, there are a matching number of novels (Oldcat & Ms. Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me; Let There Be Lite: How I Came to Know and Love Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem; and Pineapple: A Comic Novel in Verse) published. The linked stories from his forthcoming collection, Ghostly Demarcations, appeared in several magazines, including moonShine, Jitter, Weird and Whatnot, Steam Ticket, Red Dirt Forum, and Cleansheets Review (online). He has edited several story collections, including Tartts One through Tartts Seven and Belles’ Letters. As well as the above forthcoming story collection from Sagging Meniscus Press, he has a forthcoming novel entitled, The Theoretics of Love. Several completed novels are floating around in electronic ether. He presently is putting the finishing touches on a second comic novel in verse, entitled Back to the Wine Jug, which features a resurrected Victoria Woodhull, J Edgar Hoover, Diogenes and his faithful hound Pluto plus that ever-present but not so effective lantern that shines in eternal search of one honest (hu)man. Taylor and his wife Tricia house 15 stray dogs, which almost matches the number of years that he has directed Livingston Press—over 25.