“…but my favorite piece among the literary essays is Keith Taylor's beautiful Old Criticism essay on Ernest Hemingway’s prose…”
    – Larry McMurtry, reviewing A New Literary History of America in The New York Review of Books

Poet and writer Keith Taylor coordinates the undergraduate program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, directs the Bear River Writer's Conference, and is the poetry editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. 

His fourteenth collection, the chapbook The Ancient Murrelet, was published in 2013 by Alice Greene & Co. an imprint of T.H. Peak. His work has appeared in such publications as Story, The Los Angeles Times, Alternative Press, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, The Iowa Review, Witness, Chicago Tribune, and Hanging Loose. Other recent books are Marginalia for a Natural History published by Black Lawrence Press, and Ghost Writers, a collection of ghost stories co-edited with Laura Kasischke, published by Wayne State University Press.

A new chapbook of poetry and prose, Fidelities, is forthcoming in 2015. Published by Alice Greene & Co.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday, 12 February 2015
Time/Location TBD
Lecture and Reading
Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Thursday, 9 April 2015
5 pm
Reading with Hanging Loose Authors
Solar Arts Building
AWP Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Friday, 10 April 2015
noon - 1:15 pm
Reading
Minneapolis Convention Center
Room 101J, Level 1
AWP Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Saturday, 18 April 2015
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Workshops: Poetry and The Tiny Essay
Rally of Writers
Lansing Community College
Conference Center, West Campus, LCC
Lansing Michigan

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