Photograph of Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor is the author of the poetry collections Work & Days (2016) and The Forage House (2013). Her work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Review, the Harvard Review, Literary Imagination, the Times Literary Supplement, Memorious, and the New Yorker. She was the 2010-2011 Amy Clampitt Resident, has received writing fellowships from Amherst College, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She was recently a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast and Anne Spencer Poet-in-Residence at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia.