Tess Taylor
TESS TAYLOR, the 2010-2011 Amy Clampitt Resident, has received writing fellowships from Amherst College, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. Her chapbook, The Misremembered World, was published by the Poetry Society of America, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the Boston Review, the Harvard Review, Literary Imagination, The Times Literary Supplement, Memorious, and The New Yorker. Her book The Forage House will appear from Red Hen in 2013.
Reading List
Big Granny
[audio:http://shanendoah.wpenginepowered.com/612/files/2011/08/Big-Granny-Recording.mp3|titles=Big Granny] When they found Emeline, a nail held her sack dress together at the neck. She lived by gathering herbs to sell for curing leather from the land her people held since they took it from the Cherokee, quilted …