“Sly, ghostly, and unsettling, Keith Taylor’s prose pieces in Life Science are about the encounters between ourselves and what we glimpse ‘through a crack in the world.’ There’s something there, all right: something with fur and feathers; something shivery in a green hat; something waiting and watching. Even though it kept me awake part of the night with its eerie humor and visions, I loved this book.”
     – Charles Baxter

AWARDS / GRANTS / HONORS

2018
The Keith Taylor Poetry Prize
Announced January 26, 2018, an endowed University of Michigan Hopwood Award.

2015
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2014
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2013
Named A.L. Becker Collegiate Lecturer, University of Michigan 

2013
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2012
Silver Medal, Great Lakes – Best Regional Fiction, Ghost Writers, Independent Publisher Book Award 

2012
Leader in the Literary Arts, Ann Arbor Book Festival

2012
Ghost Writers, selected as a Michigan Notable Book of the Year by the Library of Michigan.

2011
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2011
Lecturers Professional Development Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan.

2009
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2008
Runner-up: TLS / Hellenic Society / Society of Authors Translation Award,
(with William W. Reader), for Battered Guitars: Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis

2008
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2008
Matthews Teaching Award, College of Literature, Science, and the Art, University of Michigan.

2007
Short-list: Government of Greece Translation Award,
(with William W. Reader), for Battered Guitars: Poetry and Prose of Kostas Karyotakis

2007
Lecturers Professional Development Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan.

2007
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2007
Senior Writing Fellow, Sweetland Writing Center, University of Michigan.

2007
Guilty at the Rapture, selected as a Michigan Notable Book of the Year by the Library of Michigan.

2006
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2006
Co-edited Special Issue of Michigan Quarterly, "The Documentary Imagination," listed as a notable "Special Issueof 2005" in The Best American Essays for 2006.

2005-2006     
Writer in Residence, Greenhills School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2005                
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

2004                                
Research Grant, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life,
Instititute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

2004                               
The Edmund Keeley / Philip Sherrard Award (with William W. Reader) 
for translation from the modern Greek. Awarded by Poetry Greece.

2002                                
Lecturer’s Professional Development Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan.

2002
What These Ithakas Mean chosen as one of the “Books of the Year” in the Times Literary Supplement.

2002                                
Residency, The International Writers’ and Translators’ Center of Rhodes, Greece.

2001                                
The Huron River chosen for the 2001 Read Michigan List by the Governor’s Office of the State of Michigan.

2001
Finalist, The Great Lakes Book Award for General Nonfiction for The Huron River.

2001 
Michigan Roads Scholar, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan.

2000                                
Modern Greek Prize, Level I, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan.

1997 – 1998                            
Creative Artist Grant, ArtServe Michigan/Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.

1996                                
Writer-in-the-Community Residency, Detroit YMCA, The Writer’s Voice.

1995                                
Nominated: Pushcart Prize

1991                                
Fellowship in Creative Writing, The National Endowment for the Arts.

1991                                
Artist in Residence, Isle Royale National Park