Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Mesa Refuge, and Blue Mountain Center.

Taylor’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Orion Magazine, Literary Hub, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He is a contributing editor at North American Review and serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press.

Taylor has been interviewed about his work on MSNBC and NPR and regularly speaks around the country on issues related to extractive economics, climate change, queerness, and disability. He is an assistant professor at Montana State University, where he teaches nonfiction writing and is the Haynes Faculty Fellow.