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Join us Friday, May 9th at Third Place Books Ravenna for an evening that stays with you.

Ed Taylor shares from his debut memoir The Power of the River: a story that moves from Lompoc to a Gonzaga scholarship to the halls of the University of Washington, tracing a life shaped by loss, grace, and the people who refused to let him fall.

The evening will unfold as a conversation about the hands that held us, the selves we dared to grow into, and the sacred responsibility we carry to honor both.

The event is free and features an audience Q& A and book signing!

Come through and bring someone who helped shape your story!

Register here: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/ed-taylor

Grateful to Traeanna Holiday for this conversation on The Day with Trae. Ed talks about The Power of the River and what it means to be shaped by loss, steadied by mentors, and forced to become yourself in spaces that weren't built for you.

Converge Media The Day With Trae | April 29th, 2026 - Ed Taylor

The Power of the River is here!

Ed Taylor’s memoir refuses the comfort of a tidy hero’s journey. Instead, it tells a deeper truth: that a life is shaped in the crucible of loss, under the weight of expectation, and in the quiet, decisive presence of those who choose to stand with us while we are still becoming.

From Lompoc, to Gonzaga University, to the fraught terrain of higher education, Taylor traces the work of becoming yourself without surrendering yourself. This is a book about belonging without erasure, about the courage it takes to remain whole in places that ask you to fragment.

It leaves an indelible mark long after the final page.
As Mónica Guzmán writes, “Wisdom flows from every page…”

Join us on April 29 at 7 PM at the Northwest African American Museum, in conversation with Reggie Brown, in celebration of the book.

Get your copy at the links below or wherever books are sold:

From us: https://www.vertvoltapress.com/work/the-power-of-the-river-a-memoir-by-ed-taylor

Third Place Books: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/ed-taylor

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Power-River-memoir-Ed-Taylor/dp/1609441702/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

NAAM Book Launch: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-the-river-book-launch-tickets-1985550359575?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Grateful to the University of Washington’s Undergraduate Academic Affairs for shining a light on Ed Taylor’s The Power of the River. His story reminds us how mentorship, resilience, and community shape who we become.

“The Power of the River” is not Ed Taylor’s first book, but it is a first for him Ed Taylor, vice provost and dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, professor in the College of Education, academic author, scholar, board member of several international and community-based...