Ann Taylor is a Professor of English at Salem State University. She has published textbooks on writing, a collection of personal essays on birdwatching,Watching Birds, and poems in a variety of places. Her first book of poetry, The River Within, won first prize at Ravenna Press' Cathlamet Poetry Competition. Her recent collection, Bound Each to Each, appeared in 2013. She continues to work on a collection of poems focusing on the twelfth-century lovers, Heloise and Abelard.