{"id":215,"date":"2024-05-13T16:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T16:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/?page_id=215"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:05:47","slug":"current-author-bio-for-zachary-taylor-branch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/?page_id=215","title":{"rendered":"Current Author Bio for Zachary Taylor Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.\u00a0 He is currently supporting community resilience and immigrant support efforts in and around Waco.\u00a0 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/\">https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/<\/a> where you can also inquire about his real life, non-fiction writing.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His short story \u201cThe Nerine Seven\u201d has been published in Alien Dimensions Anthology Series #26, <a href=\"https:\/\/aliendimensions.com\/\">https:\/\/aliendimensions.com\/<\/a>, \u201cThe Gateway\u201d is included in the B Cubed Press Southern Truths anthology, <a href=\"https:\/\/bcubedpress.wordpress.com\">https:\/\/bcubedpress.wordpress.com<\/a>, and \u201cLittle House on the Ecliptic\u201d just came out in the Oddity Prodigy Bright Mirror anthology, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/bright-mirror-a-utopian-science-fiction-anthology\/fb6eb4454f5ea6d4?ean=9781733393867\">https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/bright-mirror-a-utopian-science-fiction-anthology\/fb6eb4454f5ea6d4?ean=9781733393867<\/a>. \u201cDoctor Decon\u201d received an Honorable Mention in Allegory\u2019s Fall 2023 issue. \u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 He is currently supporting community resilience and immigrant support efforts in and around Waco.\u00a0 I am enjoying the good life as a semi-retired scientist and consultant with my wife Nancy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-215","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/215\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharytaylorbranch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}