Tess Taylor

Tess Taylor’s work deals with place, ecology, memory and cultural reckoning.  She’s published five poetry collections, including Rift Zone, one of the Boston Globe’s best books of 2020, and Work & Days, one of the NY Times’s best poetry books of 2016. A staged adaptation of her book Last West–about the life of photographer Dorothea Lange–launches at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in November 2025. Her next book of poems, Come Bite, is out from Milkweed Press in 2027. She translates from French and Latin and a current translation of Ovid’s Tristia–or exile letters–is up at Ancient Exchanges. She lives and gardens outside Berkeley, California. (Photo Credit: Adrianne Mathiowetz)