Anthony Taylor Dunn was born in New York City in 1958, and he spent his childhood in Connecticut and summers in Maine. He was educated at Hebron Academy, a preparatory school in Maine, and then went on to Dean College in Massachusetts graduating with a degree in the performing arts. He spent an interim period in Los Angeles before continuing his education at the University of Maine. After graduating with a degree in English, he worked in the banking industry in Connecticut and Boston. It was in Boston that he began writing poetry and participated in Harold Bond’s workshops at the Blacksmith House in Cambridge. Many of the narrative poems of his collection, Sunbathing on the Bottom of the Atlantic, are set in Boston. His poems have been published in literary journals such as Slant.

In addition to writing poetry, he runs a seasonal bed and breakfast (www.MicmacFarm.com) in his historic, second generational home. He lives with his wife, the photographer Bonnie Dunn, and their daughter, Isabella, in northern, coastal Maine.

Dunn is the grandson of Bert Leston Taylor, the journalist, author, and poet. This Website serves as a repository for his biography and a summation of his work. There is are also links to a sampling of his poetry and rare photographs.