Courtney Faye Taylor '15
Phone: 404.471.6198
Email: ctaylor@agnesscott.edu
Office Location: Buttrick 307
Academic Degrees
- BA Agnes Scott College
- MFA University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Teaching and Scholarly Interests
Professor Taylor teaches creative writing—poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her scholarly interests include Black literature, humor and satirical writing, visual poetics, hybridity and experimentation.
Professor Taylor is a writer, visual artist, and the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022). Through poetry, archival texts, micro-essays, and visual collage Concentrate responds to the 1991 murder of Latasha Harlins, an act of violence which came to exemplify the long-fraught relationship between Black and Asian American communities in the United States.
Concentrate was awarded the T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, The Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was named a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award. The collection has been featured in Publishers Weekly, Essence Magazine, The Los Angeles Times and named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. Magazine.
Professor Taylor is also the winner of the 92Y Discovery Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a recipient of a MacDowell fellowship in fiction. Her visual art has been exhibited at the Charlotte Street Foundation and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art online. Her writing can be found in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, and elsewhere.