Audrey Taylor Gonzalez

Reverend Audrey Taylor Gonzalez was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1939. In the span of her long career, she’s been a journalist, TV host, art gallery owner, racehorse breeder, mountain climber, world traveler, breast cancer survivor, and the first woman to be ordained to holy orders in the Southern Cone of South America at Uruguay’s Holy Trinity Cathedral in Montevideo. She’s a philanthropist, and mother and grandmother to her own children as well as many people in need that have crossed her path over the years. As a deacon at Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Audrey received the prestigious Juvenile Court Judges Award for Outstanding Service in 2012 and 2014 and she was selected by the governor of Tennessee as a Commissioner on TCCY (Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth). She is the author of the fictional memoir The Lolololo Tree and two collections of writings and homilies, Sermons and Such and The Shady Place, and two collections of poetry – Waiting for Rain, and Hurgadores de la Vida. Her debut novel, South of Everything, is a magical tale, set in the South in the 40s-50s, and will be published by She Writes Press in the fall of 2015.