Design by Heather T.

Heather Taylor was born in the USA, but moved over to Switzerland at a young age, and stayed there until she thought it would be a good idea to come and study English in the United States, since she had relatives here, and she thought maybe she’d become a writer. Having studied English at Wake Forest University in N.C., and minored in Art, she realized that she now knew too much about English, and needed a job. There being none forthcoming besides vacuous employment as a waitress in a mall delicatessen, she took the easy way out and went to grad school at UNC-Chapel Hill, whereupon she managed to avoid the real world for quite a while whilst garnering a Master’s in Education (French), and then a Ph.D. in Romance Languages (French, Italian, Spanish, and Philology). She then set out to teach, and ended up in dismal Ohio at Kent State University.

Everybody was very nice there, and she loved teaching, but research just wasn’t her thing (not to mention nobody else had ever combined research on French-language science fiction and surrealism, so it was kind of hard to insert a foot in academic journals—this was before Popular Culture hit the scene as a valid field of study). And, she happened to meet a certain Mr. Taylor online, who was from Seattle, and in Seattle there were some very large mountains, which she really happened to be missing from Switzerland, and there was a temperate climate, and lots of REALLY cool artsy people, and she’d started writing poetry again, and and and…

She moved to Seattle. And one thing led to another, they got married, they had a baby, she worked as a graphic designer in Portland, they moved to the Oregon coast, she started doing more and more art and graphic design and writing and there she still is, although her son is a young man by now.