About Tobi Taylor

Tobi Taylor with Brusally Panatela

Tobi Taylor is a writer of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, and currently serves as the editor of American Indian Art Magazine and Archaeology Southwest. A book she cowrote, Layers of History, won an Arizona Governor's award for historic preservation.

Tobi's nonfiction has been published in numerous national magazines, including Archaeology, Horse Illustrated, Blood-Horse, and Dressage Today, as well as an anthology, An Apple a Day. She is a recent recipient of a Sprint Award for excellence in equine journalism.

Tobi's fiction and poetry have appeared in several literary journals, such as Colorado-North Review, Oregon Review, and Literary Visions, and an anthology, In My Life: Encounters with the Beatles. Tobi is currently finishing a collection of short stories and is at work on a novel.

Tobi, who was trained as an archaeologist, holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Anthropology from Arizona State University. Working for various CRM firms, she has conducted archaeological research in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. From 1996 to 2001, she was the editor of Kiva: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History.

She makes her home outside Tucson, Arizona, where she raises Arabian and Arabian-warmblood cross horses at Coronado Ranch Sport Horses.