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Jo Taylor writes intimate, lyrical novels about women whose quiet lives hold extraordinary emotional truths—stories that honor memory, private courage, and the sacredness of ordinary moments.
While growing up, her family moved when the Army said move, which gave her permission to be obstreperous, and she developed a lifelong habit of finding home in stories when geography kept shifting.
Her mother died when she was two, which gave her something else entirely—a relationship with the unseen that has never quite resolved itself, and probably shouldn’t.
She spent twenty-five years as an ER nurse, mostly nights, before finishing a degree in English and discovering that she loved to write. She has lived aboard a boat in Santa Barbara Harbor, traced her genealogy to the year 310, and married a man whose character she has been stealing for her fiction ever since.
She currently lives in Daphne, Alabama, on the Gulf Coast, where the light is particular and the past is close.
Her poetry and short stories appear in various literary journals. 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, is forthcoming in September 2026. Road Clothes, her third novel, is expected in 2027.Author photo by Anna Laura Photography.
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