David Taylor is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Texas and has written and edited three books: Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (UNT Press, 2006), South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology, 1700-1860 (University of South Carolina Press, 1998) and Lawson’s Fork: Headwaters to the Confluence (Hub City Writer’s Project, 2000). Forthcoming volumes include Restoring Home: Essays on Family and Place (Texas Tech University Press, 2008), South Carolina Nature Writing, 1860-1970 (University of South Carolina Press, 2008) and a book of poetry Praying Up the Sun (Pecan Grove Press, 2007). He has published multiple articles, essays, columns, and poetry in such journals as Ecological Restoration, Texas Restoration Notes, ISLE, Upcountry Review, Mountain Gazette, and Southern Poetry Review.