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 appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Orion Magazine, and Earth Island Journal. 

The recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, the MacDowell Colony, and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, Taylor has been interviewed on both MSNBC and NPR about his work. He serves on the editorial boards of Terrain.org and Hub City Press, is a contributing editor at North American Review, and teaches nonfiction writing in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama.