She is the author of two novels, a book of short fiction, three collections of poetry, and has published widely in literary journals.
She attended Wesleyan College, in Macon, Georgia, and graduated with a BA in English from the University of Florida.
She has lived on a farm on the Harrison-Scott County line in Central Kentucky for the past forty years.
Her first novel Come and Go, Molly Snow (University Press of Kentucky, 2009) (W.W. Norton & Company, 1995) was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
[2] Interview with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall,March 30, 1998.Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky[17]