Wendy Taylor Carlyle

Wendy Taylor Carlisle is the Editor’s Choice for poetry in The Sound Journal 2011.

Photo: Tamam Kahn

Wendy Taylor Carlisle is an Arkansan who has lived for the last twenty years in Texas. She is the author of Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press 2008), Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda Press 2000), and a chapbook: The Storage of Angels, Slow Water Press, 2008. Anthologies that have published her work include Affirming Flame: Writings By Progressive Texas Poets in the Aftermath of September 11th, (ed. Jennifer Margulies with The Poets Grimm, Storyline Press 2003), Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas (ed. Naomi Shihab Nye, Harper Collins Children’s Books 2004) and Letters to the World (ed. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler, Red Hen Press 2007). Her chapbook, After Happily Ever After, was published as #15 in the 2River Chapbook Series.

Her poems have appeared on line at Fringe Magazine, Ghoti Magazine, Salt River Review, 2River View, The Arkansas Literary Forum, Unlikely Stories, and StorySouth and in print in CiderPress Review, Cardinalis, Windhover, Borderlands, Ekphrasis, and others. She has won The Bernice Blackgrove Award for Excellence, The Lipscomb Award from Centenary College, a Passager Poetry Contest Award, has been five times nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and twice nominated for Best of the Web.