Pamela Taylor is a strategy/research guru by day and a poet by night, working and writing in the Boston area. She has a doctorate in social psychology from UCLA, a MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and is a Cave Canem Fellow. Pamela’s first chapbook of poetry, My Mother’s Child, was published by Hyacinth Girl Press in June 2015.

 Recent Work

“To My Wasted Eggs”  – JAMA: Journal  of the American Medical Association, August 18, 2020 (subscription required).

Visit my YouTube channel for videos of poetry and other readings.

Other Publications

“The Last Good Moment,” “One Degree,” and “At the Tian Tan Buddha” – The Adirondack Review (Winter 2018)

“How to Get Emotional Distance When Voodoo Is Not an Option,” “The Atlantic Ocean Recalls the Middle Passage,” and “To Adam, From Eve” – Atlas + Alice

“The Truth about Fire” – Pedestal Magazine

“Fan Letter to Spider-Man” – Backbone Press

“Professional Disagreement” – Mused: BellaOnline Literary Review

“Twenty Questions for Black Professionals” – Sou’wester

“Transit of Venus” – Second Place, 2013  Carolina Woman Magazine Writing Contest

“Sighting: Mother, “There’s a Graveyard in My Belly,” “Tuesday Morning Rain” – Blackberry

“In Autumn While You Lay Dying” & “At Night I Dream of Trains” – When Women Waken (Grief Issue)

“To Earth, From Mars” – Construction Literary Magazine

“Experiment in Settling,” “To the Woman Who Called at 7:15 AM to Break Up with Her Man,” & “Calling It a Day” – LunaLuna Magazine

“Instinct” – When Women Waken (Knowing Issue) – June 2014