David Taylor is one of the original 12 Hub City writers and an essayist in the book Hub City Anthology. He is now living in Texas where he is a Lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Texas. A former professor at Converse College, David is the author of a forthcoming volume of poetry Praying Up the Sun (Pecan Grove Press, 2007) and the editor for the forthcoming South Carolina Nature Writers: 1860-1970 (USC Press, 2008).

In 2000, Hub City published a book he co-authored with Gary Henderson, Lawson’s Fork: Headwaters to Confluence, which is available in the catalog section on this site. David was involved in organization of the Headwaters Festival, a four-day celebration of Spartanburg’s Lawson’s Fork creek, which was partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in April 2000.

His other books include Pride of Place: An Anthology of Texas Nature Writing (UNT Press, 2006). South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology, 1700-1860 (University of South Carolina Press, 1998). He has published multiple articles, essays, columns, and poetry in such journals as Ecological Restoration, ISLE, Upcountry Review, Mountain Gazette, and Southern Poetry Review.