Taylor Fogarty(I)
Taylor Fogarty is best known as founder and publisher of American
Western Magazine, online at ReadTheWest.com. Known worldwide as "The
Internet Source For Western"; this online venture is updated monthly
and consists of over 1,200 archived pages of short fiction, poetry,
book reviews and excerpts, rodeo news, columns on ranching issues,
horse training and Old West history as well as fascinating in depth
interviews with actors, artists, authors, and musicians. Taylor
Fogarty's professional affiliations include membership in the Academy
of Country Music (including voting privileges for the annual ACM
Awards), Wyoming Writers Inc., and she is also an active member of
Western Writers of America and has served on that organization's Hall
of Fame committee since 2000. In 1998 her short story "The Dime-A-Dozen
Man" won First Place in the fiction category of Wyoming Writers' annual
writing contest. Fogarty was also named recipient of the Emmie Mygatt
Memorial Scholarship that same year. Today, her exclusive celebrity
interviews spotlight the very best within today's Western film & music
genre, and include such personalities as Tom Selleck, Barry Corbin, Sam
Elliott, Red Steagall, Chris LeDoux, and James Arness, to name a few.
Another of Fogarty's short fiction stories, "One Man's Land" appears as
the lead story in the Spur Award-winning anthology "Hot Biscuits -
Eighteen Stories by Women & Men of the Ranching West," published in
hardcover in 2002 by the University of New Mexico Press and edited by
Candy Moulton and Max Evans (author of over 29 novels and whose film
credits include The Hi-Lo Country and The Rounders). The anthology is
unique in that contributing writers had to meet Evans' inflexible
requirements: experience plus imagination plus innate writing ability.
The book is a collection of stories written by working cowboys - men
and women who were ranch hands with at least five years of paid
experience.
Fogarty lives on a working cattle ranch in the high country of northern Colorado with her husband, Richard. They have three daughters: Jen, Alexis and Sarah.
Fogarty lives on a working cattle ranch in the high country of northern Colorado with her husband, Richard. They have three daughters: Jen, Alexis and Sarah.