Mervyn Taylor, a Trinidad-born poet, is the author

of eight full-length collections of poetry, including

No Back Door (2010), The Waving Gallery (2014), and

Country of Warm Snow (2020), a Poetry Book Society

Recommendation that was listed for the Bocas Lit

Prize. A chapbook, News of the Living: Corona Poems,

was published by Broadstone in 2020. His latest

full-length, also from Broadstone Books, is The Last

Train (2023). Taylor has taught at Bronx Community

College, The New School University, and in the NYC

public school system. Besides poetry, he creates

assemblage and Carnival art. His grandkids are Julian

and Zadie, Sarai and Taj.