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Catherine Taylor

Catherine Taylor

Born	1964 (age 59) New York, NY

Nationality	American and British

Alma mater	Cornell University (BA) Duke University (PhD)

Known for	Writing, Publishing, Education

Notable work	Image Text Music Apart

Catherine Taylor (born 1964) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and educator. She is the Founding Editor of Essay Press and Image Text Ithaca Press and the author of Image Text Music (2022), You, Me, and the Violence (2017), Apart (2012), and Giving Birth; A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (2002), which won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Her work contains elements of essay, autobiography, scholarship, and poetry. Taylor worked as a producer, writer, and researcher on a number of documentary films including The Exiles, which won an Emmy Award. She was also a Co-Founder and Producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She studied at Cornell, Oxford and Duke University (where she received her Ph.D.) and has twice been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Early life and education

Taylor was born in New York City in 1964 and grew up there and in Ithaca, New York.. She received her BA in the College Scholar Program at Cornell University with one year at Somerville College, Oxford studying Classics. She received her PhD in English from Duke University.

Life and Career

Taylor worked at the Argosy Book Store in New York City as the Director of their Americana Division, then at The Museum of Broadcasting, and subsequently as an Associate Producer of the documentary film The Exiles, which won an Emmy Award for Historical Programming; In 1988, with funding from a Ford Foundation grant, she and Edwin Rekosh were founding co-producers of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

Following her doctoral work at Duke University, and with a grant from the McCune Foundation, Taylor worked in a number of community-based literature programs in and around Albuquerque, New Mexico. While there, she wrote her first book, Giving Birth; A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin-Perigee, 2002). She then became an Assistant Professor first at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa then at Ohio University, and then at Ithaca College, where she was subsequently made Full Professor. During this time, she Co-Founded, with Eula Biss and Stephen Cope, Essay Press, an independent publishing project dedicated to book-length, hybrid genre essays.

Brian Teare called Taylor’s second book, Apart (Ugly Duckling 2012), “neither journalism nor memoir nor documentary poem nor lyric essay nor jeremiad—though it contains elements of them all—but a brilliant and relentless examination of conscience always in search of a literary form adequate to its mission. Maggie Nelson wrote of it: “Catherine Taylor's Apart offers an intimate and sweeping look at the legacy of apartheid, while performing an altogether rare balance of 'lyric seduction' against 'the ugliness of corpses.' Taylor refreshingly treats white guilt and the self-conscious recognition of privilege as starting points rather than conclusions, as she plumbs the depths of history, from which, as she reminds us, 'no one is excused.' The result is edifying, original, and critically rigorous -- a poetic and political vibration between 'ecstasy, shame, ecstasy, shame.'”

About Taylor’s third book, You, Me and the Violence (Mad Creek, 2017), Wayne Koestenbaum wrote, “Catherine Taylor’s wondrous book—its lucidities and extravagances telescoped into sharp sentences—imagines a peaceful future by digging into the perils of right now.” Her fourth book, Image Text Music, was published by SPBH Editions, Milan in 2022.

Taylor has had residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Djerassi, and elsewhere. She has given many readings and talks at venues including Brown University, Columbia University,The Whitney Museum of American Art, Naropa, The Tate Modern, et al.

Selected works

•	Image Text Music. SPBH Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1916041257 •	You, Me, and the Violence. Mad Creek / University of Ohio, 2017. ISBN 978-0814254325 •	Apart. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012. ISBN 978-1933254968 •	Giving Birth; A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives, Penguin-Perigee, 2002. ISBN 978-0399527883

External links[edit]

•	https://www.thebeliever.net/logger/saetas/