Welcome, Bienvenue and Bienvenido to the website of Rae Marie Taylor, poet, interdisciplinary artist and workshop facilitator. This is the place you find news and information, and a complete CV concerning her publications, Spoken Word performances, and visual art in both her worlds, Quebec, the American Southwest, and beyond. We have a few recent posts for you on this page. If you’d like to see news from previous years, click on “Load More Posts” below, or go to her youtube channel @raemarietaylor5408 for a few videos. Whether then or now, may you enjoy finding what you seek here!

Published with Colorado’s Wild Rising Press, and first a Poetry Mesa finalist, Rae’s bilingual poetry book, Steady. Against the Absurd. Kinship at the Core/Sans relâche. Contre l’absurde. Corps et âmes is Winner of American BookFest’s 2025 International Book Award, for Poetry, narration!  

The Land: Our Gift and Wild Hope is the 2026 Winner of the American Legacy Book Award for creative non-fiction! Previously it was finalist for the New-Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, as well as winner of the Colorado Independent Publishers’ Merit Award for the audiobook.

Both The Land and Steady continue to make their way in a timely fashion into the hands of readers. We hope you’ll join them! And you can reach Rae by email at twoshores.rae@gmail.com for booking her as a reader or workshop facilitator.