Taylor Graham

A volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler for many years, Taylor Graham has responded to hundreds of searches for lost persons, in Alaska, Virginia, and now “back home” in California. She and her husband, Hatch, with their trained German Shepherds, are veterans of missions for lost hunters and hikers, children and elderly walkaways, victims of drowning and homicide; they were part of the U.S. Team in the aftermath of the Mexico City earthquake of 1985.

Taylor is a widely published poet, with work appearing in American Literary Review, The Iowa Review, The New York Quarterly, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere, and she’s included in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (Santa Clara University, 2004). Her book The Downstairs Dance Floor (Texas Review Press, 2006) was awarded the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her latest book is Walking with Elihu: poems on Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith.

She lives on five acres of oak woodland in El Dorado County with her husband, two trained dogs, two untrainable cats, and six sheep.