Glenn Taylor’s fourth novel, The Songs of Betty Baach won the 2023 Juniper Prize in Fiction. His first novel, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Glenn’s work has appeared in such venues as the Oxford American, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, and Huizache. Born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, he now resides with his family in Morgantown, where he is at work on a new novel.
Patrick McCabe, The Guardian: "Taylor's novel is a virtuoso performance delivered in the high, lonesome style of the Appalachian highlands"
Entertainment Weekly: "The Marrowbone Marble Company feels like it was dug out of the earth, a product of grimy, perspiring toil.
Allison Glock, The New York Times: "Also, fart jokes."
Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post: "'Betty Baach' has an aggressive quirkiness (many chapters end with an aphorism like, 'I am a llama and you are too') that peels back to reveal a core of rage. It demands to be read more than once"
other work
Short story, Tin House "The Pleasant Trajectory of Your Existence"
Short story, Oxford American "Straighten Up and Fly Right"
Short story, Harpur Palate "Love Story, 2062"
Love for my People, Electric Lit "Six Contemporary Southern Books Everyone Should Read"