Tess Taylor

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Tess Taylor’s work deals with place, ecology, memory, and cultural reckoning.  She has published five celebrated poetry collections: The Misremembered World, The Forage House, Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, and Rift Zone, one of the Boston Globe’s best books of 2020. Her book Work & Days was one of the NY Times' best poetry books of 2016. In the fall of 2023, she published the anthology Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them, a collection of contemporary gardening poems for an era of climate change. From 2024 to 2025, she will serve as an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in her role as Poet Laureate of El Cerrito, California.  A former Distinguished US Fulbright Teaching Fellow to the UK, she has received awards from MacDowell, Headlands Center for the Arts and other venues.  She has taught at UC Berkeley, Whittier College, Boston University, and Simon’s Rock.   The host of Season Two of Intimate Addresses, a Getty Museum Podcast, she now teaches privately and on the faculty of Ashland University’s low-residency MFA creative writing program. She gardens and raises chickens in El Cerrito, California.

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