To Let the Sun releases March 2025
pre-order from University of Arkansas Press

Miller Williams Poetry Prize finalist
selected by Patricia Smith

“The poems, like traumatic memory, riot and distort, name and unname. A dazzling debut.”
—Natalie Eilbert, author of Overland

“There is a tenderness in Taylor’s poetry that I can’t find anywhere else, and I know I’ll be returning to this collection for the rest of my life.”
—Paige Lewis, author of Space Struck

To Let the Sun is deeply meaningful of the speaker’s personal will and this poet’s exceptional accomplishment.”
—Laurie Lamon, author of Without Wings

“To Let the Sun shows us how to live in the aftermath of trauma, how to come ‘into the world bloody’ and remain.”
—Diannely Antigua, author of Good Monster

finalist for the YesYes Books Vinyl Chapbook contest

cover art: Gala Bent
cover & interior design: Alban Fischer 

limited run.
order here.

reviews/lists:
The Poetry Question
Electric Literature

interviews:
The Adroit Journal