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Bridging borders, poet and interdisciplinary artist Rae Marie Taylor lives, writes, and performs in the province of Quebec while staying active in her literary community in the American Southwest. A former language and literature teacher at Montreal's Dawson College, Concordia University's Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and Quebec's CEGEP Limoilou, she holds a master's degree with honours from L'Université Aix-Marseille, France.

Concerned with the earth and the spiritual health of our contemporary lives, Taylor has authored and produced seven bilingual Spoken Word shows, most recently Songs of Solidarity/Chants d'amitié en mouvance with Montreal musicians Pierre Tanguay and Diane Labrosse at the opening of her exhibit From Sand and Stars. In print, her writing appears in both English and French journals such as Montréal Serai, Vallum, KOLA, Les Écrits #146 and the online reviews Mitra and Françoise Stéréo.

Taylor’s voice reaches even further through Zoom with New Mexico's Fixed & Free publications and San Miguel de Allende PEN Literary celebrations.

Published in Québec but concerned with her homeland, her book of essays, The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope, was a finalist for the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. In 2023, her poetry suite, Steady. Against the Absurd. Kinship at the Core was a Poetry Mesa Chapbook Contest finalist and is now published with Wild Rising Press.