Ellen M. Taylor teaches at the University of Maine at Augusta, and in the Prison Education Program at the Maine State Prison, where she teaches writing and literature. She has published three collections of poetry, Floating (2009), Compass Rose (2015) and Homelands (2022), as week as scholarship on Maine women writers Celia Thaxter, Elizabeth Coatsworth, and Kate Barnes, considering intersections between gender, language, and ecology. She lives in the hills of Appleton, Maine.