Poet and author Jo Taylor has a rare gift, brilliantly displayed in Postcards, her collection of poems and short stories. Equally adept at free verse, rhyming, and metered poetic forms, and the short story, Taylor moves seamlessly from one to the next in adroit and...

Set in 1974 in south Louisiana, Margaret of Thibodaux by Jo Taylor centers around a 14-year-old girl who tries her best to cope with the loss of her beloved mother, Veone, who died six years earlier. Margaret can still sense the gentle presence of her...