Kathy Taylor
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Kathy Taylor

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Kathy Taylor is a writer and musician and a retired professor of Spanish (literature, linguistics and creative writing). She has published in English, Spanish and Papiamentu (a Caribbean Creole language): poetry, songs, short stories, translations, essays, a bilingual ethnographic novel on Mexican taxi drivers and literary criticism. She has lived and worked extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean and her experiences there have deeply informed her work. Her writing often involves explorations of the natural world and the diverse communities that interact with it. Her short story collection Trees and Other Witnesses includes tales of childhood and imagination, migration and struggle, conflict and change. They take place in Mexico, Nicaragua and the U.S. It was a 2022 finalist for the Colorado Authors League award for mainstream / literary fiction, and a 2024 finalist for the American Writing Award for short stories. Kathy’s most recent publication, The Birthing House, is a novel of literary fiction about writing, memory and belonging. It takes place in the medieval fairytale town of Marburg, Germany, where Kathy and her family lived in the early 1980s. Layers of history and philosophy, stories of refugees and immigrants, midwives and births surround a woman who finds healing and self-discovery through her writing. The novel won a 2023 International Firebird Book Award for multicultural fiction, an American Writing Award finalist for multicultural fiction, a 2024 Pencraft Award for cultural fiction and a 2024 American Writing Award finalist for Women's fiction. Kathy lives off the grid with her husband Peter in the mountains of Colorado.
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