Citizenship: Canadian and U.S.(Colorado)
Languages:  English/French

SPRING 2026 was an exciting time in Quebec City with the POETRY IN VOICE/LA VOIX DE LA POÉSIE National Finals taking place in Quebec City. I thoroughly enjoyed being on the judges’ team with colleagues from across Canada. See more about this wonderful organization for youth and poetry at poetryinvoice.ca

QUEBEC Workshops

“…a highlight for me was Rae Marie Taylor’s workshop. A master class in facilitating artists’ most honest and imaginative work”

Eileen Kennedy, workshop participant

2026 Facilitator. Writing Workshop for the IMAGINATION FESTIVAL. The Literary and Historical Library of the Morrin Centre. Quebec City.

2024 Facilitator. Creative Writing workshop at BORDERS. CANUSA Poetry Symposium. Stanstead, QC

Facilitator of the Creative Writing workshop L’ATELIER LUDIQUE with 4 colleagues at Le Festival international de poésie. Trois rivières.

2016 Maison de la Littérature. Workshop leader for ‘Creative Writing for Native and Immigrant Women’ for the Comité femmes du Centre québécois P.E.N. international (recommended by Laure Morali). Quebec City.

2014 Storyteller and artist facilitator. Childrens’ Creativity workshops as guest author during ImagiNation Writers’ Festival, Morrin College. Quebec City.

1991-’93 New Mexico: Children’s Creativity workshops for young children, ages 5-10, in my artist studio: Full or half day hands-on creativity workshops while their parents were visiting the area Southwest Adventures destination management company

MONTRÉAL, QC.  Teacher, Lecturer

1993-2004 Professor, Dawson College

English Department: Professor: Established and taught Dawson’s first Native American/First Nations Literature course. Taught Creative Writing Workshops, The Short Story, Composition

Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute 1994-1998

1995-1997 Founder and Professor of Native and First Nations Women’s Literature

Research Associate, 1994-’98, member of Fellow Seminar on Autobiographical Writing.

Co-coordinator of First Nations Women’s Reading Series

1995 and 1996 Presenter/participant. Colloquia on First Nations Research sponsored by Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Centre for community and Ethnic Studies.

NEW MEXICO, U.S.A.

Conference Coordinator for Recursos de Santa Fe and its Santa Fe Literary Center. 1990-1992

Literary conferences : 

Co-Director (with Melissa Pritchard). The Santa Fe Writers’ Conference.

Coordinator. The Taos Conference on Writing and the Natural World

Coordinator. Chicana Poetry Festival

Coordinator. The New Fin de Siècle, the Writer in the 90’s

Archaeological Conferences:

Kachinas in the Pueblo World; World View and Ritual

Indian Art of the Great Plains, in collaboration with the Museums of New Mexico and Pueblo artists and storytellers.

Common Threads: Pre-hispanic Historic and Contemporary Fiber Arts, in collaboration with the School of American Research, the Art Institute of Chicago and New Mexico Weavers

Professional Guide and interpreter in Art and Archaeology of the Southwest. In French and in English 1989-‘93

Examples of tours guided in French for the State Department of the United States:  

Conseillers de l’Afrique francophone en politiques d’art

Conseillers de l’Afrique francophone en politiques de relations inter-tribales

Les Directeurs du Musée de la Pologne

And tours in English for Recursos de Santa Fe:

Western States Art Federation

Vermont Folklife Center,

Southwestern Association of Indian Art

The New Britain Museum of American Art,

UCLA Friends of Archeology National Advisory Board,

Coalition for Quality Children’s Media

Coordinator For (Native and non-Native) Author Appearances at The Bookroom, (independent bookstore) 1989 – 90

Translator of the Paul Coze documents for the Museum of the Institute of American Indian Art 1992

QUEBEC, QC, Teacher, Department Coordinator

College de Limoilou 1968-1984:

Fine Arts Professor and Coordinator 1984 to 1988. Drawing/Painting/Art History

English Second Language Professor 1968-1984: Teaching: language acquisition; report and creative writing, translation.

Involved in department development, curriculum development.

Director, Modern Languages Department 1976 to 1979

Chairwoman for REIMP (Research, Experimentation and Implementation of a modular program for ESL). 1976 to 1979

Coordinator of Language Monitor Program.

Member, Executive Committee for Provincial ESL Pedagogical Committee, Quebec Ministry of Education 1976-1979