In 1914 the family left Hawaii, and Taggard enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley.
[2] Once in New York she started working for the publisher B. W. Huebsch and in 1921 she co-founded the journal The Measure along with fellow writer and friend Maxwell Anderson.
Upon living in New York for most of the 1920s she assumed a teaching position at Mount Holyoke College, where she taught from 1929 to 1930.
[4] In 1934, she moved on to teach at Sarah Lawrence College, where she remained until 1947, a year before her death.
During this time a Guggenheim Fellowship allowed her to spend a year in Majorca, Spain and Antibes, France.