Norwood News and then in the Sunshine Pages of the depression-era
Charlotte Observer. She was educated at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Vanderbilt University. She met Peter Taylor through writers Allen and Caroline Gordon Tate, who had mentored her in college, and the couple married in 1943. Peter Taylor taught at a number of colleges, including Kenyon College, the University of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina, where the couple became close friends with Randall Jarrell and his wife, Mackie, sharing a duplex with them for a time. Peter Taylor encouraged his wife to show her poems to Randall Jarrell, who in turn helped her submit them to various literary magazines and wrote the introduction to her first book,