Jeffrey Taylor currently lives in Boston, and completed his B.A. at the University of Utah with a creative writing emphasis. He is currently in the MFA poetry program at the University of Massachusetts. His publications include short fiction and poetry in two editions of Enormous Rooms, and poetry in Subtle Tea and Centrifugal Eye, as well as a chapbook from Elik Press, don't put it in your mouth. He is the poetry editor for The Watermark, published by the University of Massachussetts.
In addition, he is pretty sure he was adopted, and that Frank O'Hara and Bob Dylan are his real parents. He'd also like to think that Kenneth Patchen is the dirty old uncle who took him out into the woods early on and beat grit into his jerky. But he thinks O'Hara was cheating on Dylan with Bukowski while he was conceived, and that Dylan was cheating on O'Hara with Allen Ginsberg. Yet somehow he has ended up with a black and white photograph of Walt Whitman above his bed. "Oh what a mess!" he says. "I'll never know who my parents are!"
