Eleanor Taylor

Cover design and illustration for In The Rhododendrons by Heather Christle. Published by Hachette.

For readers of Also a Poet, Orwell’s Roses, and My Autobiography Of Carson McCullers—as well as the legions of Virginia Woolf fanatics—the acclaimed poet and author of The Crying Book crafts a deeply moving, immersive, and lyrical hybrid memoir about her mother, Woolf, and the transformative power of writing.

Illustration to accompany an essay: Flowers of Drivel for The Poetry Foundation.

Clare Bucknell’s The Treasuries examines how poetry anthologies have shaped national identity—and preserved some poems better left forgotten.

Portrait of Doris Lessing

Painted in acryla gouache on Saunders Waterford.

An ongoing series of tile designs exploring simple motifs inspired by an imaginary ornamental garden. Painted in acryla gouache on Arches paper.

New York Times Book Review: The Secret Guests

Illustrated cover and text for Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

The Last Man cover design.

Claire-Louise Bennett’s Women Without a Story

In “Checkout 19,” the author once again wages war against narrative, filtering experience through thoughts, textures, and the dark core of the self.

An illustration to accompany a book review of A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips.

A novel about the life of the writer Jean Rhys.

Cover illustration for Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

Portrait of Barbara Pym

Portrait of Shirley Hazzard for the cover of the NYT Book Review