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 On the Way to the Promised Land Zoo (Cyberwit, 2019), The Mercy of Traffic (Unlikely Books, 2019), and Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press, 2008). 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 collection The Mercy of Traffic won the Phillip H. McMath Post-Publication Award.