Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Misremembered World, selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship, and Work & Days was named one of The New York Times best books of poetry of 2016. Last West, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, was a part of the Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures exhibition. Rift Zone, from Red Hen Press, was hailed “brilliant” in the LA Times and “stunning” in The New York Times. Taylor has been the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered for nearly a decade.