Carey Taylor is the author of Some Aid to Navigation (MoonPath Press-2024) and The Lure of Impermanence (Cirque Press 2018). She is the winner of the 2022 Neahkahnie Mountain Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and runner-up for the Concrete Wolf Louis Poetry Book Award. She has been published in the United States, Ireland, and England. She has a Master’s Degree in School Counseling from Pacific Lutheran University.