Wendy Taylor Carlisle lives between Texarkana, Texas, and Eureka Springs, Ark. She is the author of Discount Fireworks (2008) and Reading Berryman to the Dog (2000). Among the anthologies that include her work are The Poets Grimm (2003), Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas (2004). Her chapbook After Happily Ever After, was #15 in the 2River Series. Her poems have appeared in Fringe Magazine, Salt River Review, 2River View, Unlikely Stories, StorySouth, CiderPress Review, Cardinalis, Windhover, Borderlands, Ekphrasis and others.

“I’m impossibly grateful for the ‘room of my own’ offered by A Studio in the Woods. The poems I began there became my most recent book and the freedom and space the residency granted made them possible.” – Wendy Taylor Carlisle