“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.
2018
Nominated: Pushcart Prize
2018
Artist in Residence: University of Michigan Biological Station
2018
Louis I. Bredvold Prize for Scholarly Publication, Department of English, University of Michigan
2018
Bronze Medal, Foreword Indies, Poetry Book of the Year, 2017, for The Bird-While
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