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Professor Emeritus, Bruce Taylor 
is the author of eight collections of poetry,
including The Longest You’ve Lived Anywhere: New & Selected
Poems 2013, and editor of eight anthologies
including the UPRIVER series of Wisconsin Poetry and Prose, Wisconsin Poetry (Wisconsin Academy of
Science, Arts & Letters), and, with Patti See, Higher Learning, (Prentice Hall,)
His poetry and translations have appeared in such places as The Chicago Review, The Columbia Review, The Formalist, Light, The Nation, The New York Quarterly, The Northwest
Review, Rattle, Poetry and Rosebud. His is poetry is available online
at Able Muse, The Cortland Review, Literary Salt, Slow Trains , Verse Wisconsin, Your Daily Poem and on Writer’s Almanac as read by Garrison Keillor.
His fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Bar Stories,
E2ink-1: the Best of
the Online Journals , You Have Time for
This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories, Families, The Best
Flash Fiction of the 21st Century and "Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction,. His fiction can
be found online at The Arabesque Review , Slow Trains, and The Vestal Review.
Taylor has lectured at Jinan University in
Zhuhai, People’s Republic of China, been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Korero
University, Seoul, South Korea, a member of the Literature Panel of the
Wisconsin Arts Board and host of The Writer's Workshop: Wisconsin ETN and a
program scholar and consultant for the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Lila
Wallace Foundation, the L.E. Phillips Library, the Annenberg/CPB Project and
Drexel's University First Year Experience Program.
He has won awards and Fellowships from the
Wisconsin Arts Board, Fulbright-Hayes, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Council of Wisconsin Writers, the Bush Artist
Foundation and the Excellence In Scholarship award from UWEC . He is
the current Poet Laureate of Eau Claire, Wisconsin and lives in Lake Hallie, WI. with his wife, the
writer Patti See.
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