Taylor Edmonds is a poet, writer, creative facilitator from South Wales. She is the founder of Writing for Joy, where she provides creative writing and journaling workshops centred around wellbeing and mindfulness. She is driven by improving the accessibility of creative writing to communities and championing the positive benefits of writing on individual’s wellbeing. Taylor’s debut stage play Demand the Impossible, written for Common/Wealth theatre, was staged in 2025. Her debut poetry pamphlet Back Teeth is published with Broken Sleep Books. She is the editor of The Waters that Raised Us, an anthology about bodies of water, through the lens of the climate emergency, published with Seren. Taylor was the 2021 Poet in Residence for the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales.
Taylor’s writing has been published widely, some notable publications include Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature (404 Ink), Firefly Press, Poetry Wales, Parthian, The National Literacy Trust, Butcher’s Dog Magazine, Wales Arts Review, Black Ballad, The Cheval Anthology, Broken Sleep Books, Black Bough, One by Jacar Press and Ink, Sweat & Tears. In 2021, Taylor was commissioned by Monumental Welsh Women to write a poem in tribute to Betty Campbell for the unveiling of her monument – the first statue of a named Welsh woman in Wales. Taylor is also the recipient of one of Literature Wales’ and Firefly Press’ 2020 Rising Stars award.
Taylor has performed her work on a Welsh tour with Nescio Ensemble, a classical ensemble from the Netherlands, for several BBC Sesh videos, as well as at events for The Swansea Fringe Festival, Sofar Sounds, Cheltenham Poetry & Jazz Festivals, LUSH Cardiff, The Poetry Café, Lucent Dreaming and more. She has also worked on projects as a writer and creative facilitator with Parthian, Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University, PEAK Cymru, Fio, Aurora Trinity Collective, Jukebox Collective, Artes Mundi, The Arts Council of Wales, The National Literacy Trust, The Senedd, The Severn Estuary Partnership, Y Stamp, Lucent Dreaming and Cheltenham Library.
