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Anique Sara Taylor

Current City
Phoenicia, New York, USA
Birth City
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Other
Author’s Website
Photo credit: Photo Credit: Charlene Eisenkraft

Biography

Anique Sara Taylor’s full-length poetry book Where Space Bends was published in May 2020. A Pushcart Prize Nominee, her work has appeared in Rattle, Common Ground Review, Adanna, St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s The World, Stillwater Review, Earth’s Daughters, among others and in several anthologies. Her chapbook Poems was published by Unimproved Editions Press. She’s co-authored works for HBO, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and a three-act play that was performed by Playwrights Horizons and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Where Space Bends in earlier chapbook versions was chosen Finalist in 2014 by Minerva Rising and Blue Light Press’ Chapbook Competitions and Under the Ice Moon by Blue Light Press in 2015. She teaches/taught Creative Writing for Benedictine Hospital’s Oncology Support Program, Bard LLI, Writers in the Mountains. She holds a Poetry MFA (Drew University), Diplôme (The Sorbonne), Antioch College (Literature), a Drawing MFA & Painting BFA (With Highest Honors / Pratt Institute) and a Master of Divinity Degree.

Published Works

Where Space Bends (Finishing Line Press 2020)
Poems (Unimproved Editions Press / St. Mark’s Poetry Project 1985)

Subject Matter

Aging, Childhood, Cultural Identity, Eastern Europe, Family, History, Intergenerational Trauma, Jewishness, Loss, Motherhood/Fertility, Shoah, Genocide, Trauma, Other, Multidisciplinary, Visual Art, Feminism, Disability.