Shelly Taylor is the author of three full-length poetry collections, B-SIDE GIRLS KNOCKIN' SUGAR IN THE GOURD (The Magnificent Field, 2021), LIONS, REMONSTRANCE (Coconut Books Braddock Book Prize, 2014) and BLACK-EYED HEIFER (Tarpaulin Sky, 2010). She is the co-editor, with Abraham Smith, of the anthology of rural American poetry and essays, Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press, 2015). Notes from Byzantium (Black Rock Press, 2019), a book arts chapbook with artist-collaborator Eben Goff, is her most recent chapbook. Taylor lives in rural southern Georgia and is an educator and barrel racer.