Wendy Taylor Carlisle was born in Manhattan, raised in Bermuda,  Connecticut and Ft Lauderdale, Florida and lives now in the Arkansas  Ozarks in a house she built in 1980. She has an MA from The University  of Arkansas and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019), Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press, 2008) and Reading Berryman to the Dog (Jacaranda Press, 2000.) Chapbooks include They Went to the Beach to Play (Locofo Chaps, 2016), Chap Book (Platypus Press, 2016), Persephone on the Metro (MadHat press, 2014), The Storage of Angels (Slow Water Press, 2008), and After Happily Ever After (Two River Chapbooks, 2003.) Her work appears in multiple anthologies and in The Writers' Colony's literary magazine, eMerge.