Taylor Byas

Taylor Byas is a Black poet and essayist from Chicago who lives in Cincinnati, where she was a second-year PhD student in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati. She has served as a reader for The Rumpus and The Cincinnati Review and as poetry editor for FlyPaper Lit. Her poems and prose have appeared in literary journals including New Ohio Review, The Journal, Gulf Coast, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Her chapbook BLOODWARM was announced for release by Variant Lit in 2021.