Kathy TaylorKathy Taylor is a writer and musician and a retired professor of Spanish (literature, linguistics, and creative writing). A passionate polyglot, she loves languages and their cultures and is fascinated by language in general. She has lived in Mexico,Nicaragua, Ireland, Curaçao and Germany, and has written and published in English, Spanish, German and Papiamentu: songs, poetry, short stories, essays, translations, a novel, a bilingual ethnographic novel on Mexican taxi drivers and literary criticism. Kathy's writing often involves explorations of the natural world and the diverse communities that interact with it. Her short story collection Trees and Other Witnesses was a 2022 finalist for the Colorado Authors League award for mainstream / literary fiction and a 2024 finalist for an American Writing Award for short stories. Her recent novel The Birthing House won a 2023 Firebird Award and was a finalist for an American Writing Award both in multicultural fiction. In 2024, it won a Pencraft Award for Cultural Fiction and was a finalist for an American Writing Award in Women's fiction. Kathy lives off the grid with her husband Peter in the mountains of Colorado. Read More Read Less