This blog carries on our now-defunct website, SomersetSunset.net, posting information on (Judy) Taylor Graham’s poetry. Her bio in the old website reads:
Born Judith Ann Taylor in Pasadena in 1944, Judy was raised by her doctor father and nurse mother in Sierra Madre and later Newhall, California. She first realized her interest in poetry and literature when introduced to Shakespeare in her 10th grade English class at Wm. S. Hart High School in Newhall. She majored in German with a French minor at Cal Lutheran College in Thousand Oaks, then went to USC for a master’s in comparative literature. She spent a year in the Fulbright Program at Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany and returned to USC as a Woodrow Wilson scholar. She also worked on a newspaper as a reporter and photographer. She left school and married Hatch in 1972 and they set off for his Forest Service tour in Alaska.
Writing under the name Taylor Graham, Judy has had thousands of poems printed in poetry magazines, journals, newspapers, and anthologies and a number of books of poetry. She is very proud of her inclusion in the anthology California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present.
Judy is active in two local poetry groups, Tuesday at Two and Red Fox Underground.
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Update: She was named inaugural Poet Laureate of El Dorado County, CA (2016-18) working for a vibrant local poetry community and making poetry more accessible to the general public. She launched Capturing Wakamatsu poetry walk/workshop hosted by American River Conservancy at Wakamatsu Farm, and ensured that poetry is an integral part of Arts in Nature Fest in Georgetown during Earth Week. She continues these projects as well as organizing and supporting local poetry readings and read-arounds.
In addition to her most recent poetry collections, she’s honored to be included in Villanelles anthology published by Everyman’s Library, and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology.
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