Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor: is a professor of English and currently serves as Kenan Visiting Writer at Transylvania University. A former Kentucky poet laureate, he is the author of six collections of poetry, two novels, and several books of non–fiction, mostly relating to Kentucky history. He has won two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He and his wife Lizz own Poor Richard’s Books in Frankfort, Kentucky.