COURTNEY FAYE TAYLOR is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), selected as the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Concentrate was awarded the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was named a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and other honors. The collection has been featured in Essence Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine.

Courtney earned her BA from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She is the winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize and has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell and Cave Canem. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art online and The Charlotte Street Foundation. Her writing can be found in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and elsewhere.

Courtney lives in Atlanta, GA where she is working on her first novel.