Taylor Brady

Taylor Brady is a translator, structural engineer, and lyric poet from Tucson, Arizona. He has published co-translations of short stories and novellas in different journals and magazines, including Metamorphoses and Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. Hybrid Vigils is his first book-length solo translation. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.S. in Structural Engineering and Geomechanics from Stanford University, and is a licensed professional engineer in the State of California. He is broadly interested in literature written from the margins of hegemonic cultures, critiques of technocratic determinism, and literature of the American Southwest. At present, he is translating a trilogy of Colombian novels into English and studying for his structural engineering (S.E.) licensure exam, assisted by his all-black cat apprentice: Cat Lord Eboshi, E.I.T.