Taylor Hobbs started writing ten years ago out of necessity. With a husband in the Marine Corps, adventure took her everywhere from military bases in California to a liveaboard sailboat named STORY TIME in North Carolina before ultimately heading back to the PNW. She got used to traveling light, but she could take this piece of her identity anywhere. Along the way, she created two kids (now three and six) and eight book babies. Two of her novels—Cloaked (2018) and Sonder Village (2019)—were published by The Wild Rose Press, and her first short story, Contingency Daughter, won her the 2024 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship. She expanded the story into a YA novel titled What I Would Do for You and is now represented by Michaela Whatnall of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Literary Agency.