Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Jo Taylor

Hometown: Paso Robles, CA Lives in: Daphne, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: jotaylor.776@pm.me

Address:

    • 9328 Swan Point Road
      Daphne, AL 36526
      United States
  • Phone: (805) 712-5285
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About Jo Taylor

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, In Person, Remote

Bio: Jo Taylor writes intimate, lyrical novels about women whose quiet lives hold extraordinary emotional truths. Her stories are grounded in the particular light of the Gulf Coast and the long memory of the American South—and in a deep tenderness for what ordinary moments carry.
She spent twenty-five years as an ER nurse—night shifts, mostly—before finishing a degree in English and discovering, somewhat to her own surprise, that she loved to write.
Her short fiction and poetry have been published in …Read More After the Pause, Front Porch Review, and Right Hand Pointing, among others; “Path Before Giants” was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. Postcards: Collected Poems and Short Stories was published in 2024. Her debut novel, Margaret of Thibodaux, was released in March 2025. Her second novel, *Mimi and Maurice—*which moves beyond the South to San Francisco, Belgium, and the Belgian Congo—is forthcoming in September 2026. Road Clothes, her third novel, is expected in 2027.

Works: Mimi and Maurice (Novel) Published by Road Clothes Press September 8, 2026
Margaret of Thibodaux (Novel) Published by Road Clothes Press March 18, 2025
Postcards: Collected Poems and Short Stories (Collection) Published by Road Clothes Press July 30, …Read More 2024

Awards:

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2025 Silver Medal Regional Fiction: South for Margaret of Thibodaux
Readers’ Favorite 2025 Silver Medal Fiction: Southern for Margaret of Thibodaux

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