Bruce Taylor

Poet, Fiction Writer

Chippewa Falls, WI
Wisconsin US
Email: 
taylorb@uwec.edu
Website: 
people.uwec.edu/taylorb/

Author's Bio

I have been a writer editor and teacher for over 40 years and have taught, lectured and read my work all over the U.S. as well as in Korea, China, and Australia

Education: 
University of Arkansas MFA

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Anthologies:
"FAMILIES: The Frontline of Pluralism (Wising Up Press, 2008)
,
Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, (Rose Metal Press, 2008)
,
You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (Ooligan Press, 2007)
,
E2ink-1: the Best of the Online Journals (Mild Horse Press, 2003)
Book:
Bar Stories (Bottom Dog Press, 2007)
Journals:
Carve Magazine
,
Slow Trains
,
The Arabesques Review
,
Unlikely Stories
,
Vestal Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Of Burgers and Barrooms (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2017)
,
75 Poems On Retirement, (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
,
Slow Trains (Samba Mountain Press, 2003)
,
Intimate Kisses: Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press, 2002)
,
Spilt Verse: Poetry of Separation and Divorce. (Midmarch Arts Press, 2000)
,
Cross-Connect: The Best of 1997 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
,
Wisconsin Poetry (Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, 1991)
,
Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Poetic Forms (Louisiana State University Press, 1987)
,
Yearbook Anthology of American Verse (Monitor Book Company, 1987)
,
Yearbook Anthology of American Verse (Monitor Book Company, 1986)
,
Intro#4 (Bantam Books, 1972)
Books:
Poetry Love Sex Music Booze & Death, (Upriver Press, 2018)
,
Poetry Sex Love Music Booze & Death (Upriver Press, 2018)
,
In Other Words (Upriver Press, 2014)
,
The Longest You've Lived Anywhere: New & Selected Poems (Upriver Press, 2013)
,
Higher Learning (Prentice Hall, 2005)
,
Pity the World: Poems New and Selected (Plain View Press, 2005)
,
Why That Man Talks That (Upriver Press, 1994)
,
This Day (Juniper Press, 1993)
,
Idle Trade: Early Poems (Wolfsong Press, 1979)
Journals:
Able Muse
,
American Journal of Poetry
,
Chicago Review
,
Cortland Review
,
Exquisite Corpse
,
Formalist
,
Gulf Coast
,
The Journal
,
Light
,
Nerve
,
New York Quarterly
,
Northwest Review
,
Passages North
,
Poetry
,
Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine
,
Rattle
,
Sixfold
,
Slow Trains
,
Steam Ticket
,
The Nation
Prizes won: 

He has won awards and Fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Bush Artist Foundation and the Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Somerville, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Malden, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Jan 16, 2020