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Jackson Taylor
Tom Cocotos
Jackson Taylor has for more than twenty years directed the Prison Writing Program at PEN American Center. He is an advisor to the Anne Frank Center USA’s Prison Diary Project, helped found the Graduate Writing Program at The New School, where he often teaches a class in narrative form and structure. He also teaches at Mediabistro and The Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.

His poems have appeared in Sleeping Fish, Barrow Street, LIT, Witness, and elsewhere.

Taylor’s debut novel The Blue Orchard, was published by Simon and Schuster in January 2010.






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