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Kathryn Taylor

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BSR Contributor Since April 29, 2017

Kathryn Taylor (she/her pronouns) writes essays, op-eds, profiles, and book reviews. Recently retired from university administration, she lives in Wallingford, PA. Her husband and two grown children, and sometimes her cats, make regular appearances in her essays. You can find her at www.kathryntaylorwrites.com.

Kathryn Taylor's essays have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY’s Newsworks, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly. She has written book reviews for a suburban Philadelphia weekly and a Cape Cod library and has taught workshops in reading short fiction and writing short non-fiction. From 1999 to 2017, she was a director for alumni affairs at Princeton University, from which she graduated with a degree in English a long time ago. She has also been, in reverse order, chair of the English Department at the Baldwin School, a vice president of commercial banking at the former Mellon Bank, and a freshman English instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received an M.A. in English and did further work toward a Ph.D., concentrating in Anglo-Saxon literature.

She grew up in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, but has lived in the Philadelphia area since college. A committed supporter of many Philadelphia music institutions, she serves as board president of the Crossing, the Chestnut Hill-based Grammy-nominated chamber choir. She and her husband have two grown children. Her husband and children make regular appearances in her essays, which you can find at her website.

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Overbooked for the holidays

Recipe for survival

From concerts to community events, the holidays in the Philadelphia area can delight and deplete. Add a family wedding, and this year’s holidays can be harrowing. Kathryn Taylor considers.
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We know it's a lot of paper, but we love it! And we recycle. (Illustration by Hannah Kaplan for BSR.)

A paean to paper(s)

All the news that fits

It might seem strange to celebrate newspapers in an online publication — but, hey, we love them too. Kathryn Taylor considers.
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The arts and artists: Stuck in the middle. (Illustration for BSR by Hannah Kaplan)

Art, politics, and the National Endowment for the Arts

The Crossing at the crossroads

Kathryn Taylor, board president of The Crossing, a chamber choir, says worries about losing NEA funding keep her -- and other arts board members -- awake at night.
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