Zachary Taylor Branch is the pen name of a semi-retired scientist and consultant, enjoying the good life with his wife Nancy in Lorena, TX.  He is currently supporting community resilience and immigrant support efforts in and around Waco.  I am enjoying the good life as a semi-retired scientist and consultant with my wife Nancy in Lorena, TX. His fiction writing are profiled on his blog, https://zacharytaylorbranch.com/ where you can also inquire about his real life, non-fiction writing.  His family has deep roots in Virginia, the basis of his fictional New Elisia, and his children David and Elise are too far away in Saint Louis and Seattle, pursuing careers in counseling and medicine.

His short story “The Nerine Seven” has been published in Alien Dimensions Anthology Series #26, https://aliendimensions.com/, “The Gateway” is included in the B Cubed Press Southern Truths anthology, https://bcubedpress.wordpress.com, and “Little House on the Ecliptic” just came out in the Oddity Prodigy Bright Mirror anthology, https://bookshop.org/p/books/bright-mirror-a-utopian-science-fiction-anthology/fb6eb4454f5ea6d4?ean=9781733393867. “Doctor Decon” received an Honorable Mention in Allegory’s Fall 2023 issue.