Shelly Taylor is the author of the forthcoming Lions, Remonstrance (Coconut Books Braddock Prize recipient: Spr 2014), Black-Eyed Heifer (Tarpaulin Sky: 2010) & three chapbooks. Hick Poetics, an anthology of contemporary American rural poetics co-edited with Abraham Smith, will be released from Lost Roads Press in 2014. Taylor teaches writing at Loyola University in New Orleans.