Anique Sara TaylorAnique Sara Taylor's chapbook Civil Twilight is Winner of the 2022 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her full-length poetry book Where Space Bends was published May 2020. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her work's appeared in Rattle, Common Ground Review, Adanna, Sillwater Review, St. Mark's Poetry Project's: The World, Earth's Daughters, Cover Magazine, The National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side among others and widely anthologized. Her first chapbook Poems is published by Unimproved Editions Press.Taylor has co-authored works for HBO, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and a three-act play performed by Playwrights Horizons and Williamstown Playhouse. Her Holocaust poem "The Train" was 2019 finalist in Charter Oak's Award for Best Historical Poem. Where Space Bends in earlier chapbook form was chosen Finalist by both Minerva Rising and Blue Light Press in 2014 Chapbook Competitions. In 2015 Under the Ice Moon was chosen Finalist by Blue Light Press.Taylor teaches/taught Creative Writing for Benedictine Hospital's Oncology Support Program, Bard LLI, Writers in the Mountains. She holds a Poetry MFA (Drew University), Diplôme (The Sorbonne, Paris), Painting BFA (Highest Honors/Pratt), Drawing MFA (Pratt Institute) and a Master of Divinity Degree. She studied Literature at Antioch College and Poetry at St. Mark's Poetry Project with Alice Notley, then Bernadette Mayer. She's been a regular at Wallson Glass Poem-making Sessions with Geoffrey Nutter. Read More Read Less