Keith Taylor

“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

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 Issue of 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