# Joelle Taylor

joelle taylor is a poet, playwright and author from Lancashire, in the UK. == Career == In 2000, Taylor was UK Performance Poetry slam Champion and since 2001 she has been the Artistic Director of SLAMbassadors UK, the UK's biggest youth poetry slam, run by The Poetry Society. Her new collection, "Songs My Enemy Taught Me" was published by longtime collaborator Anthony Anaxagorou in 2017, through his company, Out-Spoken Press, and she has contributed the foreword to a children's poetry anthology published in 2017 by Otter-Barry Books. She was awarded a Fellowship of the Arts in 2016, and was long listed for the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2017.