A black woman with shoulder length hair, a nose ring, and a white plaid shirt sitting in front of a window with plants.
Photo by Lucas Carpenter.

Courtney Faye Taylor (she/her) is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2023 Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the T.S. Eliot Foundation and a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. Her writing can be found in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Taylor won a 92Y Discovery Prize in 2017 and an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2015. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art online.