Short Biography:
David Taylor is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Texas. He is the author of a forthcoming volume of poetry Praying Up the Sun (Pecan Grove Press, 2007) and the editor for the forthcoming South Carolina Nature Writers:1860-1970 (USC Press, 2008). His other books include Pride of Place: An Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (UNT Press, 2006). South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology, 1700-1860 (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) and Lawson?s Fork: Headwaters to the Confluence (Hub City Writer?s Project, 2000). He has published multiple articles, essays, columns, and poetry in such journals as Ecological Restoration, ISLE, Upcountry Review, Mountain Gazette, and Southern Poetry Review.