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David Taylor

David Taylor’s collection, Success: Stories, received the WWPH fiction prize. His fiction has appeared in Gargoyle, Jabberwock, Washington City Paper, and elsewhere, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He received his MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop and is writer- producer for “The People’s Recorder,” nominated for Best Indie podcast in the 2025 Ambies.

2008 Washington Writers’
Publishing House
fiction prize

Testimonials

  • In 14 brilliant short stories, Taylor unpeels the lives and loves of ordinary people to reveal nuggets of extraordinary truths…Deceptively spare and absolutely unforgettable.

    Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author

  • Fourteen superbly-crafted tales…that explore the most vital crises of existence, when human emotions—desire and isolation, suspicion and jealousy—boil over, leaving in their wake exquisite failure and a conflict that blooms in complexity every time the reader revisits it

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  • David Taylor has the amazing ability to put you there. In these stories he puts you in a rural Muslim village rife with deadly superstition, in a New Asian bureaucracy where even minor functionaries must maneuver in a minefield of rivalry and suspicion, in a Maryland racetrack clubhouse where a filial tragedy is written in a racing form. With precise, pellucid language and almost invisible craft, he lets you see and hear and understand what matters. Success: Stories rolls right by Success on the way to Major Achievement.

    David Bradley, author of The Chaneysville Incident, PEN/Faulkner Award winner

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