Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor is the author of three books of poems, Body of the World (Ausable Press), Nude Descending an Empire (Pitt Poetry Series), and The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse (Negative Capability), a National Poetry Series Finalist. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, he lived for several years as a wilderness caretaker in New Mexico and traveled around the world on the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. He currently tends a wild garden in Kansas, where he is an Associate Professor and the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Wichita State. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, AGNI, and The New Republic. Find him on the web at www.samtaylor.us and @samtaylorpoet.