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Taylor is a novelist who graduated from Huntington High School and earned degrees in English and creative writing from Ohio University and Texas State University. His first novel, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart (2008), received national recognition and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He later published The Marrowbone Marble Company (2010), A Hanging at Cinder Bottom (2015), and The Songs of Betty Baach, which won the 2023 Juniper Prize in Fiction. He credits growing up in West Virginia with inspiring his interest in the region’s storytelling traditions and colorful language.
