Taylor M. Polites is a novelist living in Providence with his small Chihuahua, Clovis. Polites’ first novel, The Rebel Wife, was published in February 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and a BA in History and French from Washington University in St. Louis. In 2009 he was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Fellowship from Wilkes University. He has lived in Provincetown, MA; New York City; St. Louis and the Deep South. He has covered arts and news for a variety of local newspapers and magazines, including the Cape Codder, InNewsWeekly, Bird’s Eye View (the in-flight magazine of CapeAir), artscope magazine and Provincetown Arts magazine.

Academic research/areas of interest

Polites is a writer of historical fiction with a broad interest in history and literature and the ways in which they interact. He has focused his research on the black and white experience in the 19th-century American South, myth-building in Southern fiction, and Southern women’s narratives of the Civil War.

Fall 2018 Courses

• LAS-E412-01 Beginning Fiction Writing Workshop
• LAS-E101-21 First-year Literature Seminar

Wintersession 2019 Courses

• ILLUS-8965-01 Collaborative Study
• NMSE-8965-03 Collaborative Study
• LAEL-W487-01 Pond Street Project
• ILLUS-4016-01 Senior Degree Project

Spring 2019 Courses

• LAS-E422-01 Advanced Fiction Writing Wkshp