Jeffrey Taylor completed his BA at the University of Utah and his MFA at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He currently works as an editor and writer at MIT. His chapbook of poems, don’t put it in your mouth, was published by Elik Press, and other work has appeared in Subtle Tea, Centrifugal Eye, Enormous Rooms, Breakwater Review, A Small Good Thing, The Watermark, and Prick of the Spindle. He is also the founding editor of Temporary Press, a publisher of poetry and fiction in the Boston/Cambridge area.

In answer to our question of why he writes, Jeffrey responded:

“What keeps me moving forward as a writer are the wonderful artists around me. It’s so easy to always retreat into the poetry or fiction that I fell in love with early on, in college perhaps—for me, poets like Creeley, O’Hara, Olson, Eliot, Ginsberg, and on and on. But they’re gone now; all I have is their work. And while comforting and inspiring, it’s less human in a way. The great thing about surrounding myself with writers and artists is the energy I get from just being around them—their presence, unique visions, and healthy competition.”

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