first reported by a park ranger looking north across the Straits, through snow, uncertainly watching a gray pair skitter across the ice, their tracks lost
before a night vision camera catches a movement, and the lanky legs massive chest and triangular head, those green eyes glowing once again
in English from Central Michigan University, he worked a variety of odd jobs: the co-host of a radio talk show, a house painter, a freight handler, a teacher, a freelance writer.
He currently lives in Ann Arbor with his wife and daughter and is a professor in the creative writing program at University of Michigan.
Taylor is the recipient of, among other awards, a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts.